I'm only saying what my husband said he would do. I wouldn't go to Lebanon! But I don't see much difference in going to one or the other. There had to be some pretty good $$$$ incentive to go to work for the IMF in Lebanon in the first place. Just as there would be to take a job in any Middle Eastern country. (my husband could probably convince me to go just about anywhere WITH him. And he wouldn't expect a bureaucracy to fish him out. Of course, that might be what would happen, but he wouldn't expect it.)
Now that I think about it, I would head to Syria if that is where the world government body for which I worked was going. I don't think they went on planes. No airport. Israel took care of that one. But I bet once they got to Syria, they headed to the airport and went home.
Your husband and I think along the same lines.