Marines helping with evacuation in Beirut (AP)


This photo released by the Department of Defense shows U.S. Marine Corps Brig. Gen. Carl Jensen, 2nd from right, commander of Task Force 59, helping U.S. citizens off a U.S. Marine Corps CH-53 Super Stallion helicopter in Cyprus, following their flight from the U.S. Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, July 19, 2006. The United States Central Command is assisting with the departure of U.S. citizens from Lebanon. DoD photo by Gunnery Sgt. James H. Frank, U.S. Marine Corps. (AP Photo/Department of Defense, Sgt. James H. Frank)AP - U.S. Marines ferried 1,200 Americans from a Beirut beach to the USS Nashville on Thursday — the first Marine operation in Lebanon in more than two decades.


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