Rising anti-Syrian sentiment in Lebanon sends thousands of workers home

AP Worldstream | March 3, 2005| | Copyright

BASSEM MROUE, Associated Press Writer
AP Worldstream
03-03-2005
Dateline: BEIRUT, Lebanon
Syrian taxi driver Mohammed Toja has been ferrying passengers between Beirut and Damascus for 12 years. But he is reconsidering working here amid soaring anti-Syrian sentiment since Lebanon's former prime minister was assassinated last month.

Two days after a massive bomb killed Rafik Hariri and 17 others in Beirut, Toja's Dodge _ its bright yellow color marking it as a Syrian taxi _ sustained light damage when people on an overpass dropped a motorcycle battery onto his car.

And during a recent breakfast, ...

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