Senior security source previously said Iranian general was not the intended target of air strike as it believed that only low-ranking guerrillas were targeted.
Republican US House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner has invited Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to address Congress next month, extending the invitation without first informing the White House.
The detained cell focused on targetting Israeli Druse, considering them to be infidels or apostates according to the Salafist Sunni outlook to which the plotters subscribe.