This certainly sounds as if there is some movement on the part of Syria to get out of Lebanon:
Syrian intelligence agents completely vacated their last Beirut base early on Wednesday, witnesses said, a step that brings Damascus closer to meeting U.S. and Lebanese opposition demands.
The base was the Syrian intelligence headquarters in the Lebanese capital.The witnesses said a bulldozer demolished two guard posts and the last officers left after trucks had loaded equipment from the offices.
It could be that the Syrian regime is starting to realize it’s not only becoming an international pariah, it’s doing so in a way that if Washington decides to ever take military action it can likely do so with minimum international condemnation.
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.