terça-feira, 8 de março de 2005

MSNBC: Nearly half a million pro-Syrian protesters rally in Beirut

"Nearly 500,000 pro-Syrian protesters waved flags and chanted anti-American slogans in a central Beirut square Tuesday, answering a nationwide call by the militant Shiite Muslim Hezbollah group for a demonstration to counter weeks of massive rallies demanding Syrian forces leave Lebanon.

(...) Rally eclipses opposition protests

Tuesday’s rally was far bigger than the more than 70,000 anti-Syrian protesters who filled the nearby Martyrs’ Square on Monday. That was the biggest rally yet of anti-Syrian furor, as demonstrators waved Lebanon’s cedar-tree flag and thundered, “Syria out!”

Entretanto:

1) Bush vows 'freedom will prevail in Lebanon'
2) Também parece que "...he demanded fast and complete Syrian withdrawal from Lebanon, noting that no country can have free elections under foreign military occupation."

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