NYT gets it right "hundreds of thousands" pro-Syrian protesters in Lebanon

[flpoljunkie]

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/08/international/middleeast/08cnd-beirut.html?hp=&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1110301477-baQfjovbPeswHJAV20DUwQ

Huge Pro-Syrian Protest Fills Square and Streets in Beirut
By LEENA SAIDI and JAD MOUAWAD


BEIRUT, Lebanon, March 8 - Hundreds of thousands of pro-Syrian protesters poured into a central Beirut square this afternoon in a demonstration called for by the militant group Hezbollah that vastly outnumbered recent rallies demanding that Syrian forces leave Lebanon.

Thousands in the vast crowds waved Lebanese flags, as called for by the head of Hezbollah, Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, who made a surprise appearance and reiterated his opposition to a United Nations resolution demanding an immediate pullout by Syria and Hezbollah's disarmament .

Others held up banners proclaiming in English, "Thanks to Syria" and "No to Foreign Interference," as well as pictures of President Bashar al-Assad of Syria, his ally, President Émile Lahoud of Lebanon, and Rafik Hariri, the former Lebanese prime minister.

<>As the afternoon wore on, the enthusiastic, cheering crowds filled the square in central Beirut and spilled over into streets to the north and the south. Loudspeakers blared out endlessly over a public address system, carrying the message that Syrian troops should maintain a presence in Lebanon. Calls for no foreign intervention referred to the United States and Israel.

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[BlueEyedSon]

1. Democracy is on the march.

[Jacobin]

2. MSRNC now saying half a million anti-western crowd

Damn reality is leaking through the neo-con wet dream again. DRAT!!!

[Up2Late]

3. Hizbollah Draws Vast Pro-Syrian Crowds in Beirut (Reuters)

(And Wolfie Blitzer on CNN is doing his best to totally discredit this Protest as Bus Loads of Syrians, bussed in for this. He also just "Interviewed" a Lebanese Diplomat, and he keeps interrupting him when he goes off CNN's Pro-Bush message, keeps asking, "But Isn't Hezbollah a Terrorist group..."?) :grr:

Tue Mar 8, 2005 11:41 AM ET

By Nadim Ladki

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Hundreds of thousands of flag-waving Lebanese flooded central Beirut on Tuesday for a pro-Syrian rally called by Hizbollah that dwarfed previous protests demanding that Syrian troops quit Lebanon.

Hizbollah chief Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah urged the Lebanese opposition to join a national unity government and reject a U.N. demand for the Syrians to leave and his own militia to disarm.

"We call ... for the formation of a government of national unity and we ask the opposition to join it," he told the rally.

Nasrallah said no one in Lebanon feared the United States, whose troops left Beirut in 1984, a few months after a suicide bomber killed 241 Marines at their headquarters in the capital.

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[Moderator]

8. Up2Late

Per DU copyright rules
please post only four
paragraphs from the
copyrighted news source.


Thank you.

DU Moderator

[Up2Late]

9. Sorry, they didn't look like paragraphs to me.

Most looked like individual statements and quotes to me.

I try to post enough for clarity, rather than it turning into several confusing quotes, but if you think it's a problem, I'll try to be more careful in the future.

I do think the "fair use" clause make the copyright law much more flexible than some here do, but that's not my call.

Again, Sorry about that.

[gratuitous]

4. Think this will make Newsweek's cover next week?

Listen! Crickets.

[pocket]

5. ha ha, so much for

the smirkification of the middle east

[msongs]

6. Americans will not protest our stolen election......................

all over the world people are taking to the streets to protest in favor of their political rights, and in America Bush steals the election AGAIN and.......................the democrats cave.

Msongs
www.msongs.com/liberaltshirts.htm

[adigal]

7. I was thinking the same thing

See the huge group in the pictures - this is what we need to do to protest the bushification of our nation.