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International Pressure Grows for Syrian Pullout from Lebanon

By Robert Siegel

Published March 3, 2005 at 9:00 PM PST

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President Bush reiterates his demand for Syrian withdrawal of troops from Lebanon, and has Saudi Arabia has also urged a pullout. Robert Siegel talks with Magda Abu-Fadil, a director of the Institute for Professional Journalists at the Lebanese American University in Beirut.

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Robert Siegel

Prior to his retirement, Robert Siegel was the senior host of NPR's award-winning evening newsmagazine All Things Considered. With 40 years of experience working in radio news, Siegel hosted the country's most-listened-to, afternoon-drive-time news radio program and reported on stories and happenings all over the globe, and reported from a variety of locations across Europe, the Middle East, North Africa, and Asia. He signed off in his final broadcast of All Things Considered on January 5, 2018.