Blame George W. Bush
Charles Johnson
Tue Mar 1, 2005 at 3:21 pm PST • Views: 150
Baby Bashar is feeling the heat from days of protests in Lebanon, and he knows he won’t be able to invoke Hama Rules with the US military sitting watchfully right next door in Iraq—and so: Syria Says Might Pull Army from Lebanon in Months.
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said Syrian troops might pull out of Lebanon in the next few months, as Lebanese protesters rallied in central Beirut on Tuesday demanding Syria get out of their country.
Syria, which has 14,000 troops in Lebanon, has come under increasing pressure as a result of demonstrations following the assassination last month of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri.
“It (withdrawal) should be very soon and maybe in the next few months. Not after that,” Assad said an interview conducted on Monday and published by Time magazine on its Web site on Tuesday.
“I could not say we could do it in two months because I have not had the meeting with the army people. They may say it will take six months,” he added.
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