A Lebanese Muslim cleric, who was known for pro-Resistance positions, was shot dead in the northern Lebanon town of Tripoli on Tuesday.

A Lebanese Muslim cleric, who was known for pro-Resistance positions, was shot dead in the northern Lebanon town of Tripoli on Tuesday, a security source said.

Sheikh Saadeddine Ghiyeh was mortally wounded by a bullet to the head while he was getting into his car in the Bahsa neighborhood in the center of town.

"Two masked men on a motorbike pulled up alongside him and one of them shot and seriously injured the cleric, who was declared dead upon his arrival in hospital," a source told media outlets.

The 43-year-old was a member of the Islamic Action Front, an umbrella grouping of patriotic Muslim groups in Lebanon.

Ghiyeh  appeared on the TV channels after the invasion of Iraq to announce his participation in the resistance against the American occupation.

He was defender of the logic of resistance and its weapons and stood against the 'Ahmad al-Assir' phenomenon - the Slafist cleric who worked for more than a year to ignite civil war in South Lebanon city of Sidon.

Ghiyeh wrote an article addressed to Assir titled: "O' Assir ... I'm ashamed of you."

He was wounded several months earlier by an assassination attempt when a grenade was thrown at him in Tripoli.