Opposition calls for end to "US interference" in Lebanon

dpa German Press Agency
Published: Sunday December 10, 2006


Beirut- Hundreds of thousands of Lebanese opposition
supporters, led by the Shiite militant group Hezbollah, gathered
Sunday in the central district of Beirut to take part in a mass rally
to exert pressure on the anti-Syrian government to resign.
The demonstration comes on the 10th day of a sit-in outside the
offices of Prime Minister Fouad Seniora.

The Hezbollah-run al-Manar television station described the rally
as a "historic one which Lebanon has not witnessed before."

Organizers estimated the crowd to be more than 1 million, but
police on the ground questioned the figure, saying the two squares
where the demonstration took place could not hold so many people
especially as tents had been set up there.

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