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Date: 2008-10-06 (Monday)
Any intervention by Syrian troops into Lebanon would be unacceptable.
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The recent terrorist attacks that took place in Tripoli and Damascus should not serve as a pretext for further Syrian military engagement."
-- Robert Wood, deputy spokesman of US State Department, told reporters in Washington






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