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| Fmr. Lebanese Prez Thanks Bush |
| 2005-03-01 |
| Former President of Lebanon Amin Gemayel has no illusions about the reach of Syria's Baath Party regime. The veteran Christian leader blames Damascus for assassinating his brother in 1982, shortly after Bashir Gemayel's election as president of Lebanon. Amin took his brother's place, signed a U.S.-brokered peace deal with Israel and formally asked Syrian troops to exit Lebanon. Instead, the Syrian government supported Lebanese militia groups that drove U.S. peace-keeping troops out of Lebanon, and forced Gemayel to cancel his Israel agreement. Seventeen years after leaving office, Gemayel now believes that a Syrian withdrawal from his country is inevitable, as he explained to TIME Cairo Bureau Chief Scott MacLeod. Interview follows |
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