Hmmm

Hane · #1 03-15-2005, 07:20 AM

LEBANESE PROTEST IS BIGGEST YET

March 15, 2005 -- BEIRUT, Lebanon — Hundreds of thousands of demonstrators chanted "Freedom! Sovereignty! Independence!" and waved a sea of Lebanese flags in Beirut yesterday.
It was the biggest anti-Syrian protest yet in the duel of street rallies with supporters of the Syrian-backed government.

Crowds of Druse, Christians and Sunni Muslims flooded Martyrs' Square and spilled over into nearby streets — responding to a call to turn out and demand the removal of Syrian troops from Lebanon.

The assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri exactly one month ago sparked the series of protests against Syria, the dominant power in Lebanon.

Later, thousands of red and white balloons were released above the teeming crowd, many of whom wore scarves in the same colors that have come to symbolize the country's anti-Syrian movement in what the State Department has dubbed the "Cedar Revolution."

While there were no official estimates of the size of the crowd, Lebanon's leading LBC TV station and some police officers estimated it at about 1 million people.

An Associated Press estimate by reporters on the scene put the number at much higher than the approximately 500,000 who attended a March 8 pro-Syrian rally.

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I wonder how the lefties will portray this

Liberty · #2 03-15-2005, 07:28 AM

I can't wait for Curious to try and spin this one in light of what he said earlier about the Pro-Syria rally.

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Hane · #3 03-15-2005, 07:32 AM

I guess he needs to suck the drool back into his mouth.

Hane · #4 04-24-2005, 10:54 AM

Syrians End Military Presence in Lebanon

BEIRUT, Lebanon - Syrian troops burned documents and dismantled military posts in their final hours in Lebanon Sunday, before deploying toward the border and effectively ending 29 years of military presence in the country.

A few score Syrian troops will remain in Lebanon for a farewell ceremony Tuesday that the Lebanese Army plans to hold in a town close to the Syrian border.

In Damascus, the Syrian capital, a government official said: "Within the next few hours, all the troops will be out of Lebanon."

"What will be left are those who will take part in the official farewell" on Tuesday, the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity.

In the border town of Anjar, home of Syria's chief of military intelligence in Lebanon, Syrian officials appeared to be going about their business as usual Sunday.

But at the Deir el-Ahmar base, Syria's last major garrison in the Bekaa Valley, 15 tanks rolled on to flatbed trucks, ready for the drive home, witnesses told The Associated Press. Soldiers burned papers, knocked down walls and loaded ammunition on to trucks.

Syrian troops had already vacated at least 10 positions in the northern part of the Bekaa Valley on Saturday. Dozens of trucks carrying hundreds of soldiers and at least 150 armored vehicles, towing artillery pieces and rocket launchers, crossed the border into Syria, witnesses said.

"Tomorrow everything will be over," a Lebanese military officer said Saturday, speaking on condition of anonymity, as is typical for military officials here.

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