A U.S. marine carries a girl to a landing craft followed by a Lebanese soldier during a mass evacuation at a beach near Beirut, July 20, 2006.
US Marines keep watch as US nationals are transported on a landing craft that will take them to a military ship to flee Lebanon, 20 July 2006 at a private port in Dbaiyeh. US Marines and two warships today secured a port being used by the United States to evacuate its citizens from Lebanon.(AFP/Ramzi Haidar)