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U.S. GENERAL SAYS AN ESTIMATED 6,000 AMERICANS TO BE EVACUATED BY WEEKEND

July 20, 2006

 

LARNACA, Cyprus (AP) - A U.S. Marine general coordinating the evacuation from Lebanon estimated Wednesday that more than 6,000 Americans will have been taken out of the country by the weekend.

Brig. Gen. Carl Jensen also stressed that the U.S. Embassy in Beirut will not close and that America "is not deserting Lebanon."

The commander of task force 59 also said that 1,100 Americans would be evacuated from Lebanon on Wednesday, bringing the total so far to 1,500. Most would be ferried to Cyprus aboard a cruise liner and Navy ships.

He did not know how may of the 25,000 Americans in Lebanon would be leaving, but officials have in the past said about 8,000 had requested to go.

"The U.S. Embassy in Lebanon is staying open. This is not in any way shape or form an evacuation of Lebanon. This is an assisted departure," Jensen said at Larnaca airport. "We are assisting those Americans who choose to leave. Many, many are choosing to stay."

America, he said, "is not deserting Lebanon" and that "at the end we are not abandoning Lebanon."

Jensen said that they hoped to more "approximately 3,000 Americans" from Beirut on Thursday, brining the total number to more than 6,000 by Friday. Most would be brought to Cyprus "from Lebanon on ferry vessels and Navy ships."

Task Force 59 was assembled from vessels from the Bahrain-based 5th Fleet and the 6th fleet, which is based in Naples, Italy.

The force includes the USS Barry and USS Gonzalez, two destroyers that will guard the evacuation.

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