Wissam Eid

Wissam Eid (; 2 October 1976 – 25 January 2008) was a Lebanese police officer and senior intelligence official. He is best known for providing vital information about the assassination of Lebanese prime minister Rafic Hariri to an international investigation on the assassination. However, Eid was assassinated by a car bomb in Beirut on 25 January 2008.

Biography Eid was born 2 October 1976 in Deir Ammar, near Tripoli in northern Lebanon. The son of an officer in the Lebanese Internal Security Forces (ISF), he studied in Tripoli, then obtained an engineering diploma in computer information systems from the University of Balamand in 1999.

He was in charge of the technical aspect of the investigations into the attacks that occurred since 2004, and had provided important information to the international investigation into the assassination of the former prime minister Rafic Hariri. According to the German news magazine Der Spiegel, the evidence implicating Hezbollah which Eid uncovered, involved a number of cellphones purchased in Tripoli shortly before the assassination. Eid was assassinated himself before the conclusion of the investigation,

On 25 January 2008 at 10 a.m., a car bomb containing an explosive charge of at least 50 kg of explosives, detonated and killed Eid, despite him being in an armored vehicle. The bombing also killed his bodyguard and two civilians, and injured dozens of people. The attack occurred in the suburb of Hazmiyeh. Even though he was a Lebanese police officer, the investigation of his assassination was never concluded.