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US State Department spokesman Richard Boucher announces that the US is recalling ambassador Margaret Scobey from Syria. The state department expresses "profound outrage" at the massive bombing that killed Lebanon's former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. The US, however, stopped short of directly accusing Syria of plotting the assassination. Hariri had publicly opposed a faction supportive of Syria, which presently stations 15,000 troops in Lebanon. |
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