2月28日，2万5千名黎巴嫩民众在贝鲁特市中心举行抗议示威活动，高喊“叙利亚滚出去！”及“政府快下台”等口号，在海浪般的抗议声中，黎巴嫩总理卡拉米宣布他所领导的政府全体辞职，总统拉胡德随后表示接受卡拉米的辞职请求。
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外电报道如下：With shouts of "Syria out!" 25,000 protesters massed outside Parliament in a dramatic display of defiance that forced out Lebanon's pro-Syrian prime minister and Cabinet Monday, two weeks after the assassination of a popular politician touched off increasing unrest.

　　Minutes after Prime Minister Omar Karami announced he was stepping down, jubilant demonstrators - shouting, waving flags and handing red roses to soldiers - demanded that Syrian-backed President Emile Lahoud bow out, too, and pressed on with their calls for Syria to withdraw its troops from the country.

　　Syria remained silent about the rapidly changing atmosphere in Beirut, where it ruled unopposed for years, even deciding on the Lebanon's leaders, after deploying troops ostensibly as peacekeepers during the 1975-90 civil war.

　　Touch off在此表示“触发，激起”，此外还有“引爆；放炮，精确勾划出，挂断电话”等含义。

　　据悉，黎政府宣布全体辞职的消息传出以后，成千上万名黎巴嫩示威者在贝鲁特街头摇曳着国旗，并举行庆祝活动。之后，黎巴嫩反对派的支持者宣称他们将继续在贝鲁特市中心举行抗议活动，以便迫使叙利亚从黎巴嫩撤军。

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