Stranded Americans Must Pay for Evacuation.

Israel Faxx, July, 2006

By WorldNetDaily.com

Some Americans seeking to flee war-ravaged Beirut are complaining the U.S. government is requiring them to pay for their evacuation to the island of Cyprus some 75 miles away.

Distressed relatives informed WND that American citizens who call the U.S. Embassy in Beirut to register for evacuation are told about the requirement. Anyone who cannot afford to pay at the time of evacuation will be issued a promissory note, according to U.S. officials.

"I call this an absolute shame," one relative wrote. "We give billions and billions (of dollars) to help other nations; we spend billions and billions on wars and we have to charge our own trapped few thousand citizens to move them from Beirut to Cyprus. . That is what I call...

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