Tripoli prepares for Friday prayer amid stringent security measures

One week after the two blasts the rocked the city of Tripoli, the city's devout have demonstrated a robust intension to take to the mosques and perform their regular religious duty amid strict security measures. Twin explosions hit two mosques in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli last Friday, killing at least 42 people and wounding hundreds.The apparently coordinated blasts - the biggest and deadliest in Tripoli since the end of Lebanon's own civil war - struck as locals were finishing Friday prayers in the largely Sunni Muslim city. The Lebanese Army has taken all the needed precautionary security measures by setting up a number of security checkpoints at the city's entrance, and has taken extraordinary measures near mosques, whereby it prohibited cars from parking on the road sides.