Prime Minister-designate Tammam Salam denounced on Friday the Baabda rockets incident, describing it as a “dangerous and suspicious.”

“Targeting the areas that include national symbols is a new chapter in the series of suspicious security incidents across the country,” Salam said.

The Army Intelligence detained on Friday Ibrahim Khanjar, who is involved in opening fire at an army patrol last week in the Bekaa town of Majdal Anjar and killing a soldier and injuring another.

Khanjar is also accused of the abduction of the seven Estonians and killing of army intelligence Maj. Abdo Jasser, his companion First Sgt. Ziad al-Mais and another soldier in Majdal Anjar in 2011.

The army announced on Friday that two 107 mm rockets were fired in the Baabda area on Thursday.

The Army Command said in a statement: “Investigations are ongoing to determine the sources of the fire and uncover the perpetrators.”

Caretaker Interior Minister Marwan Charbel shied away on Friday from accusing any party of launching rockets on Baabda district, saying several parties have in their possession such rockets.

“Many factions own similar rockets,” Charbel told Voice of Lebanon radio (93.3).

Singer-turned Salafist Fadel Shaker, who has gone into hiding since the clashes between Islamists and the Lebanese army in June, has put his properties up for sale, security sources said.

The sources confirmed to An Nahar newspaper published on Friday that Shaker has appeared in an area near the Ain el-Hilweh Palestinian refugee camp in the South where he met with several people for the purpose of selling his properties.

President Michel Suleiman's speech marking Lebanon's 68th Army Day didn't highlight any new stance and will only press foreign countries to neutralize the country from the ongoing turmoil in the region, Baabda Palace sources said on Friday.

“They are the same old stances that he has reiterated on different occasions,” sources close to him said in comments published in al-Joumhouria newspaper.

President Michel Suleiman's speech marking Lebanon's 68th Army Day drew criticism on Friday from the March 8 alliance, which considered that it solely targeted the resistance.

Sources close to Hizbullah said in comments published in al-Joumhouria newspaper that the president's stances come amid a “systematic” foreign campaign against Hizbullah.

An Israeli army general has expressed concern over the growing threat of Hizbullah, which he said has improved its fighting capabilities and has become “more cautious.”

“With regard to the situation seven years ago, Hizbullah is better armed, better trained and more cautious,” Maj. Gen. Yair Golan, head of the Israel's Northern Command that borders Lebanon and Syria, said, according to the Israeli army website.

Two rockets fell in the Baabda area on Thursday evening, one of them near the presidential palace, in the third such incident in less than two months.

“A rocket fell near the (army's) Command and Staff College in al-Rayhaniyeh as another rocket hit the garden of Elham Freiha's house, and both were fired from al-Mwanseh area in Dhour Aramoun,” state-run National News Agency reported.

Young men who hail from the Bekaa border town of Arsal on Thursday kidnapped Lebanese citizen Youssef al-Meqdad while he was buying goods in their town, state-run National News Agency reported.

The abduction comes in retaliation for a recent robbery which Arsal residents have blamed on young men from al-Meqdad family, NNA said.