Syria has not withdrawn a significant part of its intelligence agents in Lebanon, The Washington Post quoted U.S., European and U.N. officials as saying on Wednesday.
U.N. member states and the Lebanese opposition have told the United Nations that Syrian military intelligence agents have taken up new positions "in the south of Beirut and elsewhere, and has been using headquarters of parties affiliated with the government of Syria as well as privately rented apartments for their purposes," said a report UN Chief Kofi Annan made to the Security Council and released Tuesday.
The report notes that Syria and the pro-Syrian government in Beirut have denied those allegations. "Some have left, but not all," said deputy State Department spokesman J. Adam Ereli.
Syrian intelligence is also deployed in Palestinian refugee camps and communities, U.S. officials and Western diplomats said.
