President Bashar al-Assad of Syria refused on Saturday to comply with President Bush 's demand that he withdraw all of his country 's troops and intelligence agents from Lebanon , telling the Syrian Parliament that he planned instead to order a gradual pullback to Lebanese territory near Syria 's borders .
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