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Eugene

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Fri Oct 4, 2024, 08:24 AM Oct 4

US arranges flights to bring Americans out of Lebanon as others seek escape

Source: Associated Press

US arranges flights to bring Americans out of Lebanon as others seek escape

By ELLEN KNICKMEYER, MATTHEW LEE and JOEY CAPPELLETTI
Updated 8:29 PM EDT, October 3, 2024

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S.-arranged flights have brought about 250 Americans and their relatives out of Lebanon this week during escalated fighting between Israel and Hezbollah, while thousands of others still there face airstrikes and diminishing commercial flights.

In Washington, senior State Department and White House officials met Thursday with two top Arab American officials to discuss U.S. efforts to help American citizens leave Lebanon. The two leaders also separately met with officials from the Department of Homeland Security.

Michigan state Rep. Alabas Farhat and Abed Ayoub, executive director of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, used the White House meeting to “really drive home a lot of important points about the issues our community members are facing on the ground and a lot of the logistical problems that they’re encountering with it when it comes to this evacuation,” Ayoub said.

Some officials and community leaders in Michigan, home to the nation’s largest concentration of Arab Americans, are calling on the U.S. to start an evacuation. Pentagon spokeswoman Sabrina Singh said that was not being considered right now.

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Read more: https://apnews.com/article/lebanon-israel-hezbollah-flights-war-ddfa44888c713be095a75f710beed6b2

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littlemissmartypants

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Fri Oct 4, 2024, 10:25 AM
Oct 4

A Republican before he'd authorize a trip.

He's too stupid to think and too evil to care about the fact that independents or other party members might have voted for him and could need help out.

As a psychopath he'd want anyone in harm's way and love to see us burn to death.

Always remember that to a psychopath/sociopath to love is to hurt. It's that basic.

Thanks for sharing this, Eugene.

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