{"id":627,"date":"2005-03-15T21:55:08","date_gmt":"2005-03-16T03:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=627"},"modified":"2005-03-15T21:56:03","modified_gmt":"2005-03-16T03:56:03","slug":"syrian-intel-agents-bailing-out-of-beirut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/?p=627","title":{"rendered":"Syrian Intel Agents Bailing out of Beirut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So far today, it&#8217;s a tale of two retreats.  First, <a href=\"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?p=626\">Italy<\/a> announced plans to leave Iraq.  Now we have the story of Syrian intelligence bugging out of the Lebanese capital &#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.voanews.com\/english\/2005-03-15-voa11.cfm\">and fast<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Witnesses say Syrian intelligence agents in the Lebanese capital have begun evacuating their headquarters, one day after a massive protest in Beirut aimed at ending Syria&#8217;s military presence in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Syrian agents were reported loading equipment onto pickup trucks under the supervision of Lebanese police.<\/p>\n<p>Now, let me go see if I can hunt down some more retreats.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, hundreds of thousands of protesters in Beirut held the biggest anti-Syria rally since last month&#8217;s assassination of former prime minister Rafik Hariri. Lebanon&#8217;s opposition blames Damascus and Beirut&#8217;s pro-Syrian government for the killing, but both deny involvement. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Just as a kindness, I&#8217;ll offer these <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uhaul.com\/\">helpful<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ryder.com\/\">links<\/a> to the Syrians.<\/p>\n<p>For the best Lebanese coverage of the &#8220;Cedar Revolution&#8221; as it unfolds, I once again have to recommend <a href=\"http:\/\/www.publiuspundit.com\/?p=662\">Publis Pundit<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So far today, it&#8217;s a tale of two retreats. First, Italy announced plans to leave Iraq. Now we have the story of Syrian intelligence bugging out of the Lebanese capital &#8230; and fast. Witnesses say Syrian intelligence agents in the Lebanese capital have begun evacuating their headquarters, one day after a massive protest in Beirut [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-middle-east"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}