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hrmjustin

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Sat Aug 31, 2013, 04:34 PM Aug 2013

Protesters rally in Times Square against attack on Syria [View all]



AP Eyewitness News

NEW YORK -- Anti-war protesters rallied inTimes Square as President Obama announced that he would ask Congress to authorize a military strike on Syria.

About 200 people opposed to U.S. military intervention staged a noisy but orderly demonstration Saturday in the tourist-packed theater district.

Many chanted "No war on Syria!"

The rally began around noon and continued as the president said in a televised address that he favored a military strike to punish Syria's government for an alleged chemical weapons attack on civilians, but would ask for Congressional approval.

Read more at http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=news/national_world&id=9225925
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