walid eido was sunni muslim. he was born in the bachoura area of beirut. he finished his studies at the lebanese university in 1966. in the late 1990s, he worked for the lebanese law of north lebanon, but, in the year 2000, he quit to go into political life with mr. rafic hariri and to be in the lebanese parliament. later on, he worked for the lebanese parliament. he used to belong to al-murabitun militant group at the time of the lebanese civil war, he left the murabitun when this group starts to expand and take bad members in.