Saturday 12 March 2005, 1:13 Makka Time, 22:13 GMT
Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice announced that even if she thinks that the partial withdrawal "It's not a bad thing that Syrian forces are moving - clearly not a bad thing - but it is also not compliance with 1559," adding that, "If there's an ultimatum, it's 1559. It's get out."
Mrs. Rice also expressed the desire of a clearer explanation about the entity of the pullback could be find out by the American envoy, Terje Roed-Larsen in his forthcoming meeting with the Syrian President Bashar al-Asad in Damascus on Saturday.
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/93DFC66D-A885-4B8B-A9FC-43020FE591BE.htm
Il Romanaccio at 10:05 AM