Mubarak Sends Intelligence Chief to Syria

[Rose Siding]

CAIRO, Egypt -- Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak said Wednesday that he expects further Syrian troop redeployments in Lebanon, and he dispatched his intelligence chief to Damascus to meet with President Bashar Assad to discuss increasing American and European pressure on Syria.

Mubarak did not mention, however, any troop pullout.

"Syria was to carry out some redeployment of its troops in Lebanon. Syrian President Assad promised to do so during our recent meeting in Sharm el-Sheik -- and I think he will do this," Mubarak told Egyptian reporters in Sharm el-Sheik, the Red Sea resort town where he spends much time in the winter.
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Bush and EU leaders called during a summit Tuesday in Brussels for an immediate Syrian troop withdrawal from Lebanon and a speedy U.N. investigation into Hariri's killing.

Syria's English-language government newspaper Syria Times on Wednesday said Washington's "first, second and third priority is to drive a wedge between Europe and the Arab world."

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