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Syria Pledges 'Coordinated Withdrawl' from Lebanon

By Jacki Lyden,
Ivan Watson
Published March 5, 2005 at 12:00 AM EST

In a rare address to Syria's Parliament, President Bashar Assad says he is taking steps to pull his nation's military forces from Lebanon and tells the United Nations that his plan is to make a "coordinated withdrawl." Assad's speech was watched by thousands of protesters in the Lebanese capital of Beirut.

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