Pro-Syria Demonstrators Gather in Beirut

NPR | By Ivan Watson

Published March 8, 2005 at 12:00 AM EST

A mass pro-Syria demonstration organized by the militant group Hezbollah draws several hundred thousand in the Lebanese capital. Syrian troops, meanwhile, begin pulling back to Lebanon's eastern Bekaa Valley.

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