The Lebanese army has arrested the suicide bomber whose booby-trapped vehicle was seized in the northeastern border town of Arsal on Thursday, Voice of Lebanon radio (93.3) reported.

The car, which was stolen, belongs to a man from al-Hujairi family who hails from Arsal, said VDL on Friday.

U.N. Special Coordinator for Lebanon Derek Plumbly advised the Lebanese at the end of his mission to Beirut to remain united and preserve Lebanon.

Plumbly, who will be succeeded by the head of the U.N. mission to rid Syria of chemical weapons, Sigrid Kaag, told An Nahar newspaper that his last words to the Lebanese are “to remain united and preserve this precious country.”

Several Christian youth who hail from the northern coastal city of Tripoli have reportedly converted to Islam and pledged allegiance to the al-Qaida-affiliate al-Nusra Front similar to Elie al-Warraq, who was detained by the military intelligence.

Al-Akhbar newspaper reported on Friday that al-Warraq, 22, who resides in Tripoli and hails from the northern district of Akkar, converted to extremist Islam and pledged allegiance to al-Nusra Front similar to other youth in the northern city.

Hizbullah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah has confirmed that his group has had Iranian Fateh-110 missiles that can hit the whole of Israel since 2006, noting that an Israeli spy recently busted in Hizbullah's ranks had “nothing to do with the entire military structure of the resistance.”

The Fateh-110 missiles have a minimum range of 200 kilometers that can hit entire Israel.

The army seized Thursday a booby-trapped car containing around 120 kilograms of explosives in the northeastern border town of Arsal.

“The Lebanese army closed the Ain al-Shaab road in Arsal and imposed a security cordon around a dirt road on which a Mercedes car flipped over,” state-run National News Agency reported.

Al-Mustaqbal parliamentary bloc on Thursday urged the government to take a clear decision regarding what it called “Hizbullah's violations and interference in the affairs of others,” as it urged it to speed up the trials of the Islamist prisoners in the Roumieh prison.

Arab foreign ministers on Thursday discussed a draft resolution proposed by Manama to condemn perceived “interference” by Hizbullah in the domestic affairs of Bahrain.

An Arab diplomat told Egypt's MENA news agency that the closed-door talks followed the opening session of the Arab FMs' extraordinary meeting that got underway Thursday in Cairo.

Former MP Ghattas Khoury appeared on Thursday before the Special Tribunal for Lebanon as a witness to testify on the period in Lebanon that preceded and followed the extension of the term of former President Emile Lahoud.

Khoury, who was closely affiliated with slain Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, spoke of how the Syrian regime influenced political life in Lebanon, causing a “revolt against the Lebanese constitution” that in turn led to the extension of Lahoud's term in office in 2004.

The army revealed Thursday that its Intelligence Directorate had thwarted a plot to carry out a “series of suicide attacks” in the wake of the deadly twin bombing that rocked Tripoli's Jabal Mohsen.

Military intelligence agents arrested “Bassam Hussam al-Naboush, Elie Tony al-Warraq, aka Abou Ali, and Syrian national Muhannad Ali Mohammed Abdul Qader, who were plotting to carry out terrorist operations against army posts and residential neighborhoods,” the Army Command said in a statement.

Health Minister Wael Abou Faour on Thursday ordered the closure of a number of beauty centers and blood drawing labs, as the judiciary jailed four Tripoli Port employees on suspicion of their involvement in the expired sugar case.

“Following an authorization from acting North Prosecutor Wael Hassan, the Tripoli judicial police department arrested four people in connection with the case of the spoiled sugar at the Tripoli Port,” state-run National News Agency reported.