[conservative in nyc]

Read the whole LA Times article. It sounds like the U.S. Embassy in Lebanon is running its own paper list, and isn't able to access the Internet registration list for some reason. The State Department is dysfunctional. Shocking!

Rebel_yell2: Did you try get out of the country with the UN?

I don't know what exactly the U.S. is waiting for to start the evacuation en masse, but if they are waiting for the USS Gonzalez to get in position, it might be the right call. The U.S. isn't France, and a U.S.-chartered ship would be a more tempting target to terrorists than anything France charters. Heck, I don't even think the French have labeled Hezbollah as the terrorist group that they are. The U.S. is a little bit further away from Lebanon than France, and logistics become more difficult with distance. And the State Department is a large, dysfunctional bureaucracy on a good day (and I think I'm being far to kind to the State Department).

[lajefa]

Not accurate in fact the "list" is available to any Embassy in teh world to see on line.

[familyop]

Evacuations will very likely be arranged between our US military and the IDF. Information on locating and notifying evacuees will be gathered in advance, but evacuees will also likely receive very short (if any) advance notice (security must arrive and gauntlets be in place first).

That's only guesswork from some experience.

[romanesq]

Funny we are all up in the dead of night here on the East Coast and this is where our focus is, on our fellow Americans.

Only here FRiends, only here.

[Tammy8]

I was thinking the French seem more effecient maybe due to the fact that they have a better relationship with terrorists. But you put it much nicer.