Beirut - Members of a terrorist cell who were detained in northern Lebanon over the weekend had planned to assassinate the newly appointed Army Chief Jean Qahwaji, a Lebanese security official said Tuesday.

The Lebanese army said on Sunday that its troops have arrested members of a terrorist group allegedly involved in recent bombings in northern Lebanon.

Sunday's army statement said several people from a "terrorist cell" were arrested for their involvement in the August 13 and September 29 bombings in the port city of Tripoli that killed 21 people among them Lebanese soldiers.

Beirut - At least two persons were wounded late Friday in a clash between followers of the Western-backed government and supporters of the Hezbollah-led opposition inside the capital Beirut, police sources said.

The wounded were attacked with daggers and pistols in the mainly Sunni-neighborhood of Tarik Jadideh, the police said.

The incident prompted the army to block a road leading to the area. Several people involved in the clash were arrested.

Beirut - At least one person was injured on Friday when a bomb exploded inside the Ain el Hilweh Palestinian refugee camp in southern Lebanon, Palestinian sources said.

The bomb exploded inside the camp, wounding at least one person.

This comes weeks after another explosion ripped through the camp on September 23, killing one man and injuring four others.

Beirut- Radical Sunni Muslim Sheikh Omar Bakri warned Wednesday all foreign media and especially the British press against defaming his "image and the image of Islam."

"I warn the foreign media if they continue with such stories about me and my family that I will retaliate with the right harsh means," Bakri told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa.

Beirut - Two freelance journalists from the United States are believed to have gone missing on the road between northern Lebanon and Aleppo in Syria, Lebanese media reported Wednesday.

Taylor Luck, 23, and Halli Camella Shmela, 27, who were apparently working for the Jordan Times, last contacted their families on October 1, saying they planned to take a taxi from Tripoli to Aleppo, the Lebanese daily al-Akhbar said.

According to Lebanese security sources, the two had set out from their hotel in Beirut on September 30 for an unknown destination.

Beirut - The Christian community in Lebanon has received warnings of preparations by Sunni fundamentalist groups to launch a "suicide attack" against a Christian target in northern Lebanon, local Lebanese media and political sources said Monday.