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Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/22/world/middleeast/22lebanon.htm
Syria Is Accused of Blocking a Deal on a New Lebanon President
[Reuters/New York Times] The U.S. and Lebanon's main anti-Syrian Christian leader on Wednesday accused Syria of blocking a deal on a new Lebanese president. Samir Geagea, leader of the Lebanese Forces group, said the Syrian-backed opposition was threatening chaos if its preferred consensus candidate did not replace the pro-Syrian president, Emile Lahoud. "It really ought to be decided without foreign interference, and certainly without any foreign intimidation," Secretary of State Rice said. "Those messages have been very clearly sent."