U.S. Gov charging american citizens for "ferry" out of Beirut????

[joea]

Don't forget, I don't know about the United States, but there are loads of immigrants in Canada who have family and visit often. 21,000 registered alone, weren't there lots of Lebanese Christians who went to the USA too??

[scandium]

Originally Posted by joea

Don't forget, I don't know about the United States, but there are loads of immigrants in Canada who have family and visit often. 21,000 registered alone, weren't there lots of Lebanese Christians who went to the USA too??

Indeed. Our Foreign minister puts the number of Canadians in Lebanon at somewhere between 16,000 - 40,000. And at least 8 Canadians have been killed so far by the IDF, and 6 more critically injured. 5 of them were killed when an Israeli aircraft destroyed a house in Southern Lebanon.

Meanwhie:

http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/isr...166441755.html

Israel pounded Lebanon from the air and launched limited land attacks across the border today as thousands awaited evacuation. The death toll mounted as the conflict entered its second week with no end in sight.

The Israeli army said its ground troops crossed into southern Lebanon to hit Hezbollah guerilla outposts in "restricted" attacks while Israeli jets pounded the group's Beirut stronghold and the Shweifat area outside the capital.

At least 10 villagers were killed in an Israeli air strike that destroyed several houses in the southern village of Srifa.

At least 17 other people were killed in overnight air strikes on other parts of south and east Lebanon, security sources said.

A big explosion also shook Beirut's southern suburbs not far from its airport during on air raid. Widespread damage was reported.

The conflict has forced around 100,000 Lebanese to flee their homes and many foreigners to flee the country.

One has to wonder where this 100,000 Lebanese nationals are fleeing to and what they're going to do when they get there...