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Huge crowds at pro-Syria rally
CNN ^ | 3/8/05

Posted on 03/08/2005 6:19:36 AM PST by areafiftyone

BEIRUT, Lebanon (CNN) -- Tens of thousands of pro-Syrian protesters have flooded into a square in front of the U.N. building in central Beirut in a massive counterpoint to recent anti-Damascus rallies.

CNN's Beirut Bureau Chief Brent Sadler described Tuesday's crowds as "impressive."

He said it was a "very well organized -- and so far very well disciplined -- show of strength" by those with another view to the demonstrators seen in the last three weeks.

Like the anti-Syrian demonstrators, the protesters at the Hezbollah-organized rally carried red, white and green Lebanese flags and posters with pictures of assassinated former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.

But unlike the anti-Syrian groups -- which have staged protests a few blocks away almost daily since Hariri was killed February 14 -- the pro-Syrian protesters also carried pictures of Syrian President Bashar Assad and posters denouncing U.S. policies in the Middle East.

They particularly slammed U.N. Resolution 1559, which calls for the complete and immediate withdrawal of Syrian troops from Lebanon.


(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: lebanon; syria
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Well we knew this was coming. The Leftists here in the U.S. just love this kind of anti-American stuff.
1 posted on 03/08/2005 6:19:36 AM PST by areafiftyone
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To: areafiftyone

...The things you see when you aint got a cluster bomb...sad...


3 posted on 03/08/2005 6:23:00 AM PST by RaceBannon ((Prov 28:1 KJV) The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are bold as a lion.)
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To: areafiftyone

Figures, it was from CNN.


4 posted on 03/08/2005 6:23:04 AM PST by Andy from Beaverton (I only vote Republican to stop the Democrats)
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To: areafiftyone

It should wind the DUmmies up real nice but that's a good thing. Everytime the DUmmies openly support terrorists a few dim bulbs flicker on over there with the realization that they are amongst insanity.


5 posted on 03/08/2005 6:23:24 AM PST by cripplecreek (I'm apathetic but really don't care.)
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To: areafiftyone
Oh yes, like I said in another thread, these demos have all the sincerity and look of Fidel Castro's "We love communism" demonstrations in Havana. Meanwhile, people risk their lives to flee his pathetic hellhole.
6 posted on 03/08/2005 6:24:23 AM PST by SoFloFreeper
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To: cripplecreek

Oh I was lurking there - they are practically peeing in their pants over this. They just don't realize that alot of these people who are protesting are members of Hezbollah and radical muslims.


7 posted on 03/08/2005 6:28:01 AM PST by areafiftyone (The Democrat's Mind: The Hamster's dead but the wheel's still spinning!)
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To: The_wonderful_wizard_of_oz

Source?


8 posted on 03/08/2005 6:29:05 AM PST by Cyclopean Squid (The 80s belonged to the Gipper, the Aughts belong to Dubya!)
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To: areafiftyone

Anyone notice the coverage time this rally is getting compared to the PATHETIC coverage the PRO-LEBANESE rallies get? Instead, we get to hear about Michael Jackson, Scott Peterson's sister, Dan Rather's goodbye, blah, blah, blah.....

But now that there is a PRO-SYRIA rally, the coverage won't stop.


9 posted on 03/08/2005 6:29:31 AM PST by Eagle of Liberty ("Science without religion is lame; religion without science is blind." —Albert Einstein)
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To: areafiftyone

these people are nothing more than Syrians in Lebanese clothing.


10 posted on 03/08/2005 6:29:38 AM PST by roaddog727 (The marginal propensity to save is 1 minus the marginal propensity to consume.)
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I know what it is. Why this mob looks so different. All males. Not just all Arab, but all males because these are the jew-hating, woman-beating, boy-buggering followers of the religion of death.


12 posted on 03/08/2005 6:30:10 AM PST by johnb838 ("You Have Ruled, Now Let Us See You Enforce" Need some wood?)
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To: johnb838

Exactly!


13 posted on 03/08/2005 6:31:05 AM PST by areafiftyone (The Democrat's Mind: The Hamster's dead but the wheel's still spinning!)
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It looks like Hezbollah is as illiterate as Muhammad (interfrence?!):


15 posted on 03/08/2005 6:32:03 AM PST by Cyclopean Squid (The 80s belonged to the Gipper, the Aughts belong to Dubya!)
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To: Kerretarded

I know. It was all Michael Jackson and Martha Stewart (coming out of jail). Like these people are important in this world!


16 posted on 03/08/2005 6:33:16 AM PST by areafiftyone (The Democrat's Mind: The Hamster's dead but the wheel's still spinning!)
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To: Cyclopean Squid

LOL Looks like Hezbollah is as illiterate as some of our Leftist protestors right here in this country!


17 posted on 03/08/2005 6:34:12 AM PST by areafiftyone (The Democrat's Mind: The Hamster's dead but the wheel's still spinning!)
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To: areafiftyone

WE WANT MORE OPPRESSION!!!

AND WE WANT IT NOW!!!


18 posted on 03/08/2005 6:35:27 AM PST by Samurai_Jack (ride out and confront the evil!)
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To: The_wonderful_wizard_of_oz

That seems like a lot: 1.5 million out of a total Lebanese population of 3,777,218 (source: CIA Factbook): about 40% of everyone in the country is at a pro-Syrian Hezbollah-sponsered demostration in Beirut?


19 posted on 03/08/2005 6:35:52 AM PST by Cyclopean Squid (The 80s belonged to the Gipper, the Aughts belong to Dubya!)
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To: Samurai_Jack

Amazing isn't it? Islam = Idiot Zombies!


20 posted on 03/08/2005 6:36:56 AM PST by areafiftyone (The Democrat's Mind: The Hamster's dead but the wheel's still spinning!)
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