==>ASSAD SAYS SYRIA WILL CONTINUE BACKING HEZBOLLAH
amigocabal
movement of the palestinian refugees. Of course they will resist the nazi
israel!
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> Assad says Syria will continue backing Hezbollah
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> DAMASCUS - Syrian President Bashar Assad on Monday shrugged off U.S.
> pressure to cut ties with Hezbollah and expel radical Palestinian groups
> regarded as terrorists by Washington.
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> "Syria supports the Lebanese national resistance, including
> Hezbollah... in resisting Israeli occupation and liberating land -
> politically and in the media - because the brothers in the Lebanese
> resistance do not need military support from Syria," he said in
> an interview to the Lebanese al-Liwaa newspaper, which was reported
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> Syria's Arab News Agency (SANA).
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> Syria has the right to defend itself against any Israeli aggression
> against its lands, Assad said, adding that Israeli threats against Syria
> were not new.
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> "As for the Palestinian groups... their work is limited to political
> and media activities, and their offices in Damascus provide political
> representation to the 400,000 Palestinians living in Syria who look to
> attain their rights and return to their land," al-Liwa quoted Assad as
> saying.
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> It was the first time that Assad commented on the ten Palestinian
> factions existing in Syria after U.S. President George W. Bush demanded
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> week that Syria cut its support for Hezbollah and expel the militant
> Palestinian groups it hosts.
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