(Jerusalem Report) Ehud Ya'ari - Syrian president Bashar al-Assad ignored warnings from the White House and the Elysee Palace and is going ahead anyway with his plan to keep Lebanon's President Lahoud installed for another three years. It shows that Syria is not prepared to give even a passing thought to demands for it to loosen its grip on Lebanon. The assessment in Damascus is that French President Chirac will swallow what Assad is up to and that President Bush is too busy with his own elections.
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