Bahraini Minister of Justice,Islamic Affairs and Endowments,Sheikh Khalid bin Ali al-Khalifa considered on Saturday Hizbullah as one of the dangers that are threatening the region as “it possesses an extremist ideology.”

“We have been exerting efforts for the past several months to contact all the political factions in Bahrain to reach an understanding.” Sheikh Khalid said.

The Free Patriotic Movement commemorated on Saturday the ouster of its leader MP Michel Aoun on October 13, 1990.

“Today the FPM is working on surmounting the difficulties that occurred in the past to uphold the nation,” Aoun told gatherers during a mass at Deir el-Qalaa in Beit Mery.

Hamas described on Saturday Hizbullah's drone that penetrated Israeli airspace as a “great strategic accomplishment.”

“Hizbullah is carrying out a psychological political battle against Israel,” senior Hamas leader Mahmoud Zahar said.

The army detonated on Saturday a cluster bomb left over from the 2006 Israeli aggression on Lebanon in al-Bayader area in Shebaa, the National News Agency reported.

According to the news agency, a citizen has detected the bomb in a field and informed immediately the army about it.

President Michel Suleiman expressed his deep dissatisfaction regarding the recent escape of inmates from Roumieh prison, stating that such incidents are “unacceptable,” the state-run National News Agency said Saturday.

Suleiman told Internal Security Forces chief Ashraf Rifi during a meeting to conduct investigations and take necessary measures to hunt down the escapees and hold prison officials responsible for negligence therein.

Israel is determined to implement the lessons it learned from the Second Lebanon War, and to define its targets more clearly, Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported on Saturday.

The report pointed out that Hizbullah’s launch of the Iranian-made drone, which penetrated Israeli airspace last Saturday, served as a reminder of the complicated balance of deterrent power between the sides.

Prime Minister Najib Miqati called on Lebanese immigrants on Saturday to register their names with related embassies to be able to participate in the 2013 parliamentary elections, assuring that the diplomatic appointments will take shape soon.

Miqati addressed the Lebanese community during a dinner banquet in DR Congo, he said: “register your names with the Lebanese embassies and missions to participate in the parliamentary elections next year,” he said on Friday evening.

Prisons' General Chaplain Marwan Ghanem said that one storey in Roumieh prison occupied by Fatah al-Islam inmates is subject to clear privacy measures enforced by the inmates themselves which in return inhibits the security guards from invading their privacy, As Safir daily reported Saturday.

Commenting on the escape from Roumieh prison uncovered Friday, Ghanem stated in an interview to Voice of Lebanon radio (93.3) that the prison overcrowding has created a major problem that requires a solution.

Former PM Saad Hariri stressed on Saturday that “Lebanon is not an unmanned drone”, in reference to the acknowledgment of Hizbullah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah that his party sent a sophisticated unmanned drone over Israel last week, the An Nahar daily said.

Hariri said: “Everyone must shoulder responsibility. They must understand that Lebanon is not an unmanned plane,” particularly under the current crucial regional circumstances, Hariri told the daily in an interview.

Speaker Nabih Berri stressed that any electoral draft law that suggests tipping the victory of a particular political group over another would only receive rejection from the other, which compels the necessity to agree on a law that finds the approval and reassurance of all sides, the An Nahar daily said Saturday.

In an interview to the daily Berri stressed that “efforts are underway to study all proposed draft law projects until we find the appropriate one that finds approval of all parties.”