The suicide attack attempt that was foiled in Beirut's Hamra area over the weekend, is part of a strategic and decisive decision taken at the highest levels of the Army Command and the Directorate of Intelligence, to launch pre-emptive war on terrorists, prominent military sources told Ad Diyar daily on Monday.

The sources that spoke on condition of anonymity said: “The security forces endeavors in that regard are to launch a pre-emptive, relentless war on terrorists in order to uproot them and combat their menace.”

Leader of the National Liberal Party MP Dory Chamoun, urged Hizbullah and all other armed factions in Lebanon to surrender their arms to the Lebanese Armed Forces after their proven ability to protect the country following the Costa cafe incident, al-Joumhouria daily reported on Monday.

“Hizbullah and every faction outside legitimacy must surrender their weapons to the Lebanese army because it is has proven successful in protecting Lebanon. Confidence of the Lebanese in their army and its performance is mounting,” said Chamoun.

Al-Mustaqbal Movement justified the reasons that made President Michel Aoun warn he would use his constitutional powers to prevent the parliamentary elections shall political parties fail to agree on a new electoral law, assuring his keenness on Lebanon's stability and on the welfare of the presidential term, al-Akhbar daily reported on Monday.

“The President is unlikely to accept his term to begin with a setback of this kind or a failure in staging the elections and violating the constitution,” unnamed Mustaqbal sources told the daily.

President Michel Aoun on Sunday congratulated the military Intelligence Directorate and the Intelligence Branch of the Internal Security Forces for foiling a suicide attack at Costa cafe in Beirut's Hamra district, as Prime Minister Saad Hariri visited the scene of the incident.

Several shells were found Sunday on the side of the international road in the town of Bhamdoun near the intersection of the Aley town of Shanay, state-run National News Agency reported.

Four people have been arrested at the Sidon building where the Costa would-be suicide bomber, Omar al-Assi, used to live, the army said on Sunday.

The “Parliament for All Coalition” and a number of political and syndical activists and civil society groups staged a march in Beirut on Sunday to press authorities to pass a new and “fair” electoral law.

A suspect was arrested Sunday in the Akkar border region of Wadi Khaled, hours after security forces arrested a would-be suicide bomber at the Costa cafe in Beirut's Hamra district.

Interior Minister Nouhad al-Mashnouq has revealed that the Higher Defense Council will soon convene to mull and discuss a plan aimed at combating kidnap rings, which are especially active in the Bekaa region.

Army intelligence agents have arrested a would-be suicide bomber in north Lebanon, media reports said on Sunday.