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Transcript: Profile: Lenanon's reaction to Syrian President Bashar Assad's vow to pull Syrian troops back to the Lebanon-Syria border
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- March 6, 2005
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SHEILAH KAST
Weekend Edition - Sunday (NPR)
03-06-2005
Profile: Lenanon's reaction to Syrian President Bashar Assad's vow to pull Syrian troops back to the Lebanon-Syria border
Host: SHEILAH KAST
Time: 12:00 Noon-1:00 PM
SHEILAH KAST, host:
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, in a speech to the Syrian parliament last night, proposed a process to begin the withdrawal of about 14,000 soldiers from neighboring Lebanon. The US State Department called Assad's proposal a halfhearted measure. Syria is under intense pressure from Lebanese opposition groups and the international community to pull out all troops and intelligence agents from Lebanon. NPR's Ivan Watson reports from Beirut.
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