A U.S. Marine from amphibious transport dock USS Nashville carries a child into a landing craft on a beach in north Beirut July 20, 2006. About 40 Marines arrived on a beach in a Christian area north of Beirut at dawn to ferry about 1,200 Americans to Cyprus as part of efforts to extract U.S. citizens caught in a war zone like thousands of other foreigners, many of Lebanese origin. REUTERS/Yiorgos Karahalis
A U.S. Marine from amphibious transport dock USS Nashville carries children into a landing craft on a beach in north Beirut July 20, 2006. About 40 Marines arrived on a beach in a Christian area north of Beirut at dawn to ferry about 1,200 Americans to Cyprus as part of efforts to extract U.S. citizens caught in a war zone like thousands of other foreigners, many of Lebanese origin. REUTERS/Yiorgos Karahalis (LEBANON)