The army intelligence detained Khaled al-Satem for his suspicious links with the perpetrators who carried out the recent bombing in the Beirut's southern suburbs neighborhood of Haret Hreik, media reports said on Saturday.

According to state-run National News Agency, al-Satem was detained by army intelligence on Friday night at Deir Ammar checkpoint.

Al-Nusra Front and Marwan al-Hadidi Brigades claimed on Saturday the responsibility for targeting the Bekaa region of Hermel with seven rockets.

The two extremist groups claimed the attack via twitter.

Former Prime Minister and head of al-Mustaqbal movement Saad Hariri warned on Saturday the Lebanese in general and the Sunni sect in particular from supporting fishy calls that urge them to involve the country in rejected and condemned wars.

“The Lebanese and the Sunni sect reject to be part of any war in Lebanon or the region between Hizbullah and al-Qaida,” Hariri said in a statement issued by his press office.

Caretaker Foreign Minister Adnan Mansour shrugged off on Saturday the campaign of criticism against him after he defended Hizbullah in the Geneva II peace talks conference on Syria.

“I am convinced into what's in favor of Lebanon and its people,” Mansour said after laying the cornerstone for the new foreign ministry building in downtown Beirut near the Martyrs Square.

Lebanese Forces chief Samir Geagea said Saturday that harmony between cabinet members would currently be only guaranteed by the formation of a neutral government.

“The country shouldn't be left without a cabinet on condition that it be harmonious,” Geagea told a delegation visiting him at his residence in Maarab.

Greek Orthodox leader Youhanna X Yazigi urged the Lebanese on Saturday to resolve their political disputes peacefully and avoid a constitutional vacuum.

The Patriarch of Antioch and All the East condemned the latest security incidents that are taking civilian lives.

Hizbullah has decided to move the residences of several of its officials to areas outside Beirut's southern suburbs, al-Liwaa newspaper reported on Saturday.

The daily said the move would be temporary pending a firm decision to implement strict security measures in the Hizbullah stronghold following several deadly blasts that rocked the Beirut's southern suburbs and other areas where the party has a large influence.

U.S. Ambassador David Hale has informed top Lebanese officials that Washington prefers the formation of an all-embracing government that does not exclude any party over fears on a further crisis in the presidential elections, As Safir daily reported on Saturday.

The newspaper said that Hale's round of discussions with the officials included a warning that the formation of a nonpartisan cabinet that does not receive the support of all the Lebanese parties would paralyze the presidential elections.

Al-Mustaqbal parliamentary bloc leader Fouad Saniora has rejected to back off from an agreement reached between the country's top leaders on the rotation of portfolios in the new government.

“We totally reject that,” Saniora said in remarks published on Saturday.

Change and Reform bloc lawmaker Alain Aoun has criticized the country's top officials for failing to coordinate with Free Patriotic Movement leader MP Michel Aoun when they struck a deal on the new government.

In an interview with An Nahar daily published on Saturday, Aoun said: “Had there been a true Christian partner from the beginning, they would have known that it has a different stance and the agreement would have been struck based on different principles.”