Grand Mufti Mohamad Qabbani warned on Monday that Lebanon has been targeted, adding that there are intentions to plunge the country into the unrest taking place in the region.

Grand Mufti Mohamad Qabbani warned on Monday that Lebanon has been targeted, adding that there are intentions to plunge the country into the unrest taking place in the region.

As he was visiting the two sheikhs who were attacked earlier on Sunday, Qabbani held all leaderships responsible for the attack.

Both the Shiite and Sunni leaderships “are responsible for what happened” to the two scholars at Dar al-Fatwa, the Mufti said.

“The Shiite sect along with its political and military leaderships should lift the cover off” the suspects involved in the assault, he said.

Meanwhile, the Mufti said that some Sunni leaders were also to be blamed for the attack for “standing behind the verbal assaults on the Mufti to topple him.”

“Lebanon is targeted, and there are intensions to plunge Lebanon into the region’s unrest,” the Mufti said after he visited Sheikh Mazen Hariri and Sheikh Ahmed Fakhran at al-Makassed hospital.

“Let no one think that the fire will not reach Lebanon,” he warned. “There is a conspiracy and we should distance ourselves from this strife that is at its beginning.”

“I am not accusing anyone but the probe should be swift,” he said after the army announced that it arrested five people suspected of involvement in Sunday's incident in Khandaq al-Ghamiq along with an attack on another sheikh, Omar al-Imami, in the Beirut suburb of Shiyyah.