Posted on 05/09/2008 5:59:49 AM PDT by nuconvert
Italy readying evacuation plan for Lebanon
May 9, 2008
ROME (Reuters) - Italy's foreign ministry said on Friday it was preparing an evacuation plan for its nationals in the Lebanese capital Beirut, where Hezbollah fighters and pro-government gunmen have been battling for three days.
A ministry spokesman said the plan was not operational yet and would be enforced only if necessary.
He said Italians in certain parts of the city were being offered safe shelter if they wanted to leave their homes.
"I wouldn't call it at this phase an evacuation. We are ready for that, we are preparing it in case of need," the spokesman said.
"But what we are trying to do now is help Italians living in a specific area of the city to leave that place and go (if they want) to a specific shelter."
There are about 600 Italians living in Beirut, about 50 of them in the part of the city affected by the fighting, the ministry said. There are nearly 1,400 Italians registered as living in Lebanon.
This is a major story and seems to be very slow getting attention of the msm here
“Hizbollah forces MPs out of capital”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2013534/posts
Read “Because they Hate” by Brigitte Gabriel for a good education of what happened in Lebanon. The same course of events that happened in Lebanon to turn what once was a pro-Western nation into an Islamofascist outpost is happening in Europe and in America.
This could turn out to be somewhat like missing the story of the assassination of the Archduke Ferdinand...
Why is any ITALIAN in Lebanon? If you have Rome, why would you go to a bomb-blasted hell hole where a Christian’s life isn’t worth anything?
Hmmmm...no extradition treaty?
;^)
As you know, “reporters” often, if not always speak with terrorists, and then write their stories as if it is fact.
Could this be Hizbollah propaganda?
nope. - Hezbollah has just beaten the government army and is imposing control.
“By mid-morning the fighting had died down and Hezbollah and allied fighters were in control as loyalists put down their weapons.”
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080509/ts_nm/lebanon_conflict_dc_35;_ylt=AgEG5iFUDPu.kMcKUbqYwvkE1vAI
By extension, I wonder that about any Westerner! If you're from the most advanced, stable and pleasant part of the world...I just don't get the appeal of spending time in a dangerous, backwards, mad-Moozie dump.
Add this to the list of “Top 500 Reasons for Vaporizing Iran”.
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