25,000 U.S Citzens in Lebanon urged to leave..

[Guest swirlundergrounder]

..Oh wait our Isreali allies blew up the airport and run ways in Beruit. So get out any way you can!!

So now we might have to send troops and helicopters to airlift our people to safety.. I wonder how many helicopters will come under sniper fire??

Thanks Isreal! Thanks for thinking ahead for the safety of the citzens of the country from which you recieve 10% of our overall foreign aid every year!

Isreal is like a rabid mad dog loose in the street.

[Guest JMT]

they bombed the airport so those 2 israeli hostages could not be airlifted out of the country easily.

[Guest slamminshaun]

"We want to welcome our American friends to Lebanon, where everyday is the 4th of July...."

[Guest trancepriest]

..Oh wait our Isreali allies blew up the airport and run ways in Beruit. So get out any way you can!!

So now we might have to send troops and helicopters to airlift our people to safety.. I wonder how many helicopters will come under sniper fire??

Thanks Isreal! Thanks for thinking ahead for the safety of the citzens of the country from which you recieve 10% of our overall foreign aid every year!

Isreal is like a rabid mad dog loose in the street.

You think too much... just be a patriot. Fascism is the new in thing.

[Guest swirlundergrounder]

"We want to welcome our American friends to Lebanon' date=' where everyday is the 4th of July...."

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[Guest swirlundergrounder]

Now there are no roads out of Lebanon because the Israeli's destroyed all of the roads going in and out of Lebanon.

[Guest obby]

http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/07/17/D8ITPH280.html

Thousands of Foreigners Evacuate Lebanon

Jul 17 10:01 AM US/Eastern

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By GEORGE PSYLLIDES

Associated Press Writer

NICOSIA, Cyprus

A ship carrying hundreds of evacuees from fighting in Lebanon headed to Cyprus on Monday as European governments stepped up efforts to move their nationals to safety.

Hundreds of foreigners _ including tourists and dual nationals _ have been moved through the island since Israel began its attacks on Lebanon last Wednesday in response to attacks from Hezbollah militants.

An Italian warship carrying nearly 400 evacuees was expected in the Cyprus port of Larnaca on Monday afternoon. The evacuees were headed to Beirut on a convoy of 17 buses, Italian authorities said.

The Cyprus government made preparations to help with the evacuation of thousands more expected to be brought out by the United States and European countries.

Many will move through Cyprus, 125 miles from Beirut.

"At this stage we don't have an exact number of people. ... We'll surely have four or five ships this week alone," Foreign Ministry official Omiros Mavromatis said after a government meeting with civil defense, health and military officials.

Greece is sending a navy frigate to a Lebanese port to pick up 100 people and has three additional warships on standby.

France, which has more than 20,000 citizens in Lebanon, chartered a Greek ferry, the Ierapetra, to pick up as many as 1,200 French and other European citizens in Lebanon.

Military planes brought 350 people to the island on Sunday, and 40 Britons and 21 Americans were flown by helicopter to Britain's Akrotiri military base on Cyprus.

About 850 Swedes from among about 5,000 in Lebanon have been evacuated, largely to the city of Aleppo in northern Syria, where most of them remain. Sweden has chartered three ships to bring Swedes from Beirut to Cyprus, but is awaiting security guarantees from the warring parties.

Fabi el-Zyen, a Swedish citizen of Lebanese descent, was among 157 people who have returned to Stockholm.

"It was like a nightmare or something. We woke up and the whole house was shaking and you heard the aircraft and the bombs they dropped," he told Sweden's public radio. "We thought it was very trying there, we saw the bombs and we saw people dying," he said.

A British aircraft carrier and another warship _ both already in the Mediterranean _ set off Sunday on a three-day trip to the Middle East in preparation for the possible evacuation of Britons.

A British Foreign Office spokesman said the first wave of Britons _ children, elderly and ill people, left Sunday aboard a the helicopter that transported European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana, who met with Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Saniora on Sunday in Beirut.

Denmark began evacuating some 2,300 people by bus to Damascus, Syria. So far, some 700 have returned home, the Danish government said.

Two U.S. Marine Corps helicopters evacuated 21 Americans on Sunday, flying from the U.S. Embassy's fortified grounds on a hilltop in a Beirut suburb. U.S. security teams also landed to begin planning the evacuation of others.

More than 100 Marines were in Cyprus to prepare for the operation.

Ukraine said its embassy in Lebanon rented 14 buses to begin the evacuation of 520 Ukrainians from Beirut. They were to be taken to the airport in the Syrian city of Latakia, where three flights were scheduled to pick them up and take them home.

Russia's Foreign Ministry said there were more than 1,400 Russian citizens in Lebanon, and RIA-Novosti and ITAR-Tass news agencies quoted Russia's charge d'affaires there as saying more than 1,000 were ready to leave.