Lebanon has set up an air bridge to ferry its citizens out of war-torn Ivory Coast and on to Beirut, the French foreign ministry said Friday, announcing the creation of a crisis coordination cell.

A fleet of medium-sized planes will fly Lebanese citizens from Abidjan airport, which is now controlled by French troops, to neighboring Ghana's capital Accra, where they will be transferred to Lebanese airliners.

Lebanon’s Ambassador to Bahrain Aziz al-Qazzi revealed on Friday that the Bahraini authorities requested ten Lebanese to leave the Gulf state.

He told Free Lebanon radio that the situation in Bahrain is stable.

Military Prosecutor Saqr Saqr charged on Friday 11 individuals for conspiring and participating in the kidnapping of the seven Estonian cyclists two weeks ago.

The accused abducted the cyclists through the use of force and their whereabouts are still unknown.

Prosecutor General Saeed Mirza allowed on Friday a committee of journalists and inmates’ families to enter Roumieh prison to inspect the prisoners’ conditions.

He granted them permission after a committee from the families met with him to inquire about the prisoners.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange revealed that 6,000 documents on Israel will be released soon, saying that they will shed some light on its confrontation of Iran’s nuclear program and its role in the assassination of prominent Hizbullah official Imad Mughniyeh.

He told Israel’s Yediot Ahronot: “The documents we released in the past few months were the fuel that ignited the Arab revolts.”

Caretaker Transportation and Public Works Minister Ghazi Aridi stated on Friday that there have been no convincing justifications given over the delay in the government formation.

He told Voice of Lebanon radio: “It appears that the team charged with the forming the government does not trust its members … as if they are waging a battle over the distribution of portfolios.”

A leaked U.S. Embassy cable published exclusively in the Al-Akhbar newspaper on Friday revealed that Defense Minister Elias Murr had initially rejected a Russian grant of 77 tanks and 50,000 of their ammunition, saying that the Lebanese had no need for them.

The WikiLeaks cable spoke of a December 16, 2008, meeting between Murr and his Russian counterpart Anatoly Serdyukov, during which the Lebanese official explained that Lebanon is in need of MiG fighter jets.

A Middle East Airlines plane landed at Beirut airport on Friday morning bringing 95 Lebanese who have escaped the violence in the Ivory Coast.

The plane had 244 people on board.

Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea has told a U.S. official that Lebanon was in need of hundreds of MiG-29 Russian fighter jets to “threaten Israel.”

In a WikiLeaks cable dated December 19, 2008, Geagea told U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State David Hale that Lebanese army pilots need a 10-year experience on the jets to confront Israel.

Traces of Iodine-131 from Japan’s nuclear plant were found on low-lying foliage in Lebanon although they don’t pose a danger to human health, said the National Council for Scientific Research.

The small findings have now been confirmed in samples of rainwater and soaked foliage by rain that fell between April 4 and 6, according to CNRS.