LEBANON: GOVERNMENT FORCES TAKE OVER SYRIAN EX-OCCUPIED SITES

Record ID: 276776

  • Title: LEBANON: GOVERNMENT FORCES TAKE OVER SYRIAN EX-OCCUPIED SITES
  • Date: 10th March 2005
  • Summary: (W4) HAMAT, AKKAR, NORTH LEBANON, LEBANON (MARCH 9, 2005) (REUTERS) 1. SLV LEBANESE ARMY SOLDIERS ON EX-OCCUPIED SYRIAN SITE ZOOM OUT TO LOCATION; LEBANESE FLAG 0.12 2. SLV DESERTED HOME THAT WAS OCCUPIED BY SYRIAN TROOPS; GARBAGE LEFT BY SYRIANS; SLV COUCH LEFT BEHIND BY SYRIAN TROOPS; SCU WRITING ON THE WALL WITH A HAIR BRUSH LEFT BEHIND TILT DOW
  • Embargoed: 25th March 2005 12:00
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  • Location: HAMAT, AKKAR, NORTH LEBANON, LEBANON
  • Country: Lebanon
  • Reuters ID: LVA981OCBMNLB8XAA9I6FSIC7HVL
  • Story Text: Lebanese soldiers take over the Syrian ex-occupied
    sites after and are rushed by cheering opposition supporters.

    Lebanese soldiers take over the Syrian ex-occupied
    sites after and are rushed by cheering opposition
    supporters in the Northern town of Hamat. Cheering
    supporters arrived in a convoy, honking away, as they
    carried Lebanese flags and repeated slogans of "Freedom,
    Sovereignty, Independence".

    Syrian troops in some Lebanese areas redeployed
    Wednesday morning to eastern Lebanon in the first stage of
    a two-phase pullout. Syria forces also pulled out from
    other positions in northern Lebanon and witnesses said the
    troops returned home.

    Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and Lahoud agreed on
    Monday to shift Syrian troops to eastern Lebanon by March
    31. A statement said the Syrian and Lebanese military would
    then decide how long the Syrians stayed.


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