Thank you CNN, FOX, CNBC!!!
Now that you have reported on the evacuation of American citizens from the Mid East, could you have made it any easier for some wacko to put a missle into the ships going to their rescue?
Pictures of the ships, names and schedules of the whole operation....
Great Work! :rolleyes: :eek: :confused:
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The Orient Queen - which can carry 876 passengers - had been on a cruise of the eastern Mediterranean with 400 people aboard, mostly Lebanese. It was supposed to have returned to Beirut three days ago but was unable to do so because of the Israeli blockade, a U.S. official in Beirut said. While it was in Cyprus, it was chartered by the U.S. to evacuate Americans.
Speaking to Pentagon reporters from Bahrain, Walsh said there were no plans yet to put U.S. Marines ashore in Beirut for security.
The 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit, conducting exercises in the Red Sea, was ordered into the waters off Lebanon to help with the evacuation. U.S. ships expected in the area include the amphibious assault ships USS Iwo Jima, USS Nashville and USS Whidbey Island.
The ships, part of a five-vessel Navy unit, carry a battalion of Marines with a helicopter squadron. The ships also have hospital facilities.
European nations also intensified their evacuation effort, moving thousands out of harm's way.
· Britain's HMS Gloucester departed with 180 people on board, the vast majority of them British. Another Royal Navy warship, York, was offshore.
Up to 3,000 Britons want to be evacuated, said British Ambassador James Watt. He called Tuesday's departures "an experiment," adding that there will be more and in bigger numbers in coming days, using navy and chartered ships.
· A Greek navy frigate steamed out of Beirut harbor with about 400 Greeks, Cypriots and other Europeans aboard.
Associated Press writers Pauline Jelinek in Washington, and George Psyllides and Patrick Quinn in Cyprus contributed to this report.
07-19-06 00:54 EDT
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Freaking morons.
