VOA: "Syrian Foreign Ministry spokesman denies reports that Syria has withdrawn troops from its border with Iraq in retaliation for US raid...

VOA, here

"[Timur] Goksel adds that he thinks Syria is responding to long-term international pressure to keep better control of its border with Lebanon and that he doubts anyone inside Lebanon or from within the international community will protest the move:"So, I think the timing is perfect. It is certainly not a threat of any kind to the Lebanese or anything like that," he said. "Nobody is going to complain, because everyone has been complaining that the eastern border has been unguarded…"