protesters march on U.S. embassy in Beirut

[DeaconBlues]

Pro-Syrian Demonstrators Denounce U.S.
By BASSEM MROUE, AP

BEIRUT, Lebanon (March 15) -- About 2,000 pro-Syria demonstrators denouncing what they said was American interference in Lebanon marched toward the U.S. Embassy in a Beirut suburb Tuesday, and scores of riot police and soldiers used barbed wire to block the approaches to the compound.

The protesters, waving Lebanese flags and chanting, ''Ambassador get out! Leave my country free!'' stopped at the barbed wire blocking the road about 500 yards from the fortified hilltop compound. The crowd did not try to break through.

A day earlier, hundreds of thousands of people gathered in the capital in the largest anti-Syrian protests yet since international pressure on Damascus to withdraw its troops has intensified.

Pro-Syrian groups have blamed the United States for pressuring Syria into deciding to withdraw its 14,000 troops from Lebanon. They also reject a U.S.-sponsored U.N. Security Council resolution demanding that Syria withdraw and dismantle militias, a reference to the militant Shiite Muslim group Hezbollah.... (more)

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Here's a little story that's being buried by the MSM. I hope its not a dupe.

[maddezmom]

1. kick to combine

[Iceburg]

2. Anti-U.S. Demonstrators March on American Embassy in Beirut

Updated Mar.16,2005 10:00 KST
A noisy crowd of several thousand demonstrators gathered in front of the U.S. Embassy compound north of Beirut, protesting what they called U.S. meddling in Lebanon's internal affairs and demanding the withdrawal of U.S. Ambassador Jeffrey Feltman.
Several thousand demonstrators blocked the main road in front of the U.S. Embassy, shouting "Death to America" and denouncing U.S. policy in the Middle East.

One speaker, using a megaphone, demanded the United States remove ambassador Jeffrey Feltman from Lebanon.

A number of speakers from Lebanon's Hezbollah guerilla group, as well as pro-Syrian figures took part in the anti-U.S. demonstration. Hezbollah is on the State Department's list of terrorist organizations.
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