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FLOTILLA ON ITS WAY

The ferry commissioned by the United States, that can carry up to 1,000 people, left Cyprus on Tuesday morning and headed to the Lebanese coast and some of the 8,000 Americans registered as living in Lebanon were expected to board later in the day, a diplomatic source in Nicosia said.

 

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060718/ts_nm/mideast_evacuation_dc

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Nations mobilize for mass evacuations from Lebanon

 

World powers have deployed helicopters, warships, chartered ferries and buses to pluck tens of thousands of trapped foreigners from war-torn Lebanon in one of the biggest mass evacuations since World War II.

 

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