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To: LindyBill who wrote (103555)	3/7/2005 2:17:01 PM
From: LindyBill	Respond to of 793838

LGF - Huge demonstrations against Syria continue in Lebanon, while US media obsessively focuses on Martha Stewart and Michael Jackson. news.yahoo.com BEIRUT (AFP) - Up to 150,000 opposition supporters rallied in Beirut three weeks after the murder of ex-premier Rafiq Hariri as Syria prepared for a troop pullback in Lebanon in the face of international pressure. Lebanese red-and-white flags and chants of “Syria Out” filled the central Martyrs’ Square as President Emile Lahoud held much anticipated Damascus talks on the promised redeployment to the eastern Bekaa Valley. ... According to police, more than 150,000 people attended Monday’s rally in Martyrs’ Square, where Hariri is buried, to demand the truth about the Damascus critic’s death. Organisers of the rally gave a figure of between 200,000 and 250,000.