| Wissam Eid | |
| Birth Date: | 2 October 1976 |
| Birth Place: | Deir Ammar, Lebanon |
| Death Place: | Hazmiyeh, Lebanon |
| Nationality: | Lebanese |
| Occupation: | Police officer, senior terrorism investigator |
Wissam Eid (Arabic: وسام عيد) was a senior intelligence official within the Internal Security Forces of Lebanon. 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.[1] [2]
Eid was born 2 October 1976 in Deir Ammar, near Tripoli. Son of an officer of the Lebanese ISF, he studied in Tripoli, then he obtained an engineering diploma in computer information systems from the University of Balamand in 1999.
On 25 January 2008 at 10 a.m., despite his armoured vehicle, a car bomb attack containing an explosive charge of at least 50 kg of explosives killed him, along with his bodyguard and two civilians, and injured dozens of people. The attack occurred in the suburb of Hazmiyeh.[3] [4]