Lebanon Evacuations - An American naval vessel is currently anchored off the coast of Lebanon and is prepared to take some 12-hundred Americans to Cyprus and away from the fighting, according to published reports.
The U.S.S. Nashville is ready to transport the evacuees where they can find lodging, money, e-mail access, telephones and medical care.
Hundreds of people have gathered on the beach waiting to board a landing craft that is ferrying passengers to the vessel at approximately 300 at a time, reports the AP.
The last time the Marines were in Lebanon, Oct. 23, 1983, a suicide bomber drove an explosive-laden truck into a building where a great deal of the U.S. troops were staying, smashing the concrete floor slabs atop one another and killing 241 Americans.
Those attacks were blamed on the supporters of Hezbollah, the Shiite militia that is currently battling Israel.
-- Compiled from wire reports
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