Army Commander General Jean Qahwaji urged on Friday the army to fortify the internal scene against the repercussions of regional crises and maintain unity against internal challenges.

He said in an address of the army: “You should not allow your country to become a means to target any fraternal country.”

President Michel Suleiman held talks on Friday with Free Patriotic Movement leader MP Michel Aoun on ways to resume the national dialogue.

They stressed that its resumption will have a positive effect on the internal scene should it be held again, adding that it will also help ease the political tensions.

Here is a list of names and details about the four suspects in ex-Premier Rafik Hariri’s assassination case provided by the Special Tribunal for Lebanon:

Photo number 1: SALIM JAMIL AYYASH was born on 10 November 1963 in Harouf, Lebanon. He is the son of Jamil Dakhil AYYASH (father) and Mahasen Issa SALAMEH (mother). He has resided inter alia at: Al-Jamous Street, Tabajah building, Hadath, in South Beirut; and at the AYYASH family compound in Harouf, Nabatiyeh in South Lebanon. He is a citizen of Lebanon. His Lebanese civil registration is 197IHarouf, his Hajj passport number is 059386, and his social security number is 63/690790.

Special Tribunal for Lebanon Pre-trial judge Daniel Fransen ordered the lifting of confidentiality on the full names and aliases, biographical information, photographs and charges against the Hizbullah members named in last month’s indictment, the STL said in a statement on Friday.

The four individuals named in the June 28 indictment in ex-Premier Rafik Hariri’s Feb. 2005 assassination are Salim Jamil Ayyash, Mustafa Amine Badreddine, Hussein Hassan Oneissi and Assad Hassan Sabra, said the STL.

Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea accused on Friday Hizbullah Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah of abusing power, slamming his recent speech in which he declared that the party will exploit the gas and oil wealth of any side that exploit’s Lebanon’s.

He said during a press conference on Lebanon’s offshore wealth: “We cannot remain silent over such a dangerous announcement.”

Lebanon's few remaining Arabic calligraphers, whose elegant script and interweaving words transport one to another era, are working to preserve an art form struggling to compete with new technology.

"The computer is a wonderful tool but in no way can it replace an artist or produce masterpieces," says Mahmoud Bayoun, one of the country's best-known calligraphers, whose works have been displayed in the United States and Iran.

Several ministries and a parliamentary committee are holding intense talks to prepare a draft-law that sets Lebanon’s Exclusive Economic Zone but the decree is not likely to be completed by August 2 during a session of the cabinet, An Nahar daily reported Friday.

It said the meetings are being held between the representatives of the foreign, energy and economy ministries and parliament’s energy and hydraulics committee.

Premier Najib Miqati returns to Beirut from his family trip abroad on Friday night as the cabinet readies itself to hold a meeting next week to discuss the bombing that targeted a UNIFIL patrol in the south and a series of administrative issues.

The agenda of Tuesday’s cabinet meeting has 161 items linked to financial, real estate, electricity and water projects. The agenda also includes the transfer of teachers at the Lebanese University.

U.S. Ambassador Maura Connelly has said that Premier Najib Miqati’s cabinet “appears to reflect less the will of the people and more the will of external interests.”

During a reception held at the embassy to bid farewell to Public Affairs Officer Ryan Gliha on Wednesday, Connelly said: “There is a danger that Lebanon will lose many of its hard-fought gains on the level of democratic participation and transparency.”

Tawhid movement leader Wiam Wahhab brushed aside on Friday a decision by U.S. President Barak Obama to extend a 2007 freeze of assets against him.

The decision is “meaningless,” Wahhab told Voice of Lebanon radio station (100.5), saying “it didn’t affect me in 2007 and won’t affect me today.”