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Syria on Wednesday defended its deployment of extra troops on the border with Lebanon as a measure to combat smuggling and infiltration by saboteurs, dismissing concerns raised in Beirut and Washington. "These measures are aimed to control the border, only from Syrian territory, and we have no other intentions," a Syrian official told AFP on condition of anonymity.

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