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Did you see the link I sent you? The following should work, and sorry about the error (lack of the _s_ in https) the first time I sent it.

Register at https://travelregistration.state.gov/ibrs

It's a secure sockets layer (SSL) URL--requires the "https".

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).