A young evacuee from Lebanon leaves from USS Trenton at the port of Mersin, southern Turkey, Monday, July 24, 2006. The 1,600 U.S. citizens on the Trenton will be taken to Incirlik Air Base in the nearby city of Adana by bus to fly home. U.S. officials said the last scheduled evacuations of Americans from Lebanon would happen on Wednesday.
Evacuees sit on temporary beds at emergency center in the Vergina middle school in Larnaca, Cyprus, Monday, July 24, 2006. Two ships, the Jean Bart frigate and the Ierapetra, brought about 1,300 French nationals and more than 200 other foreigners to Larnaca Sunday and Monday. The group included about 100 Lebanese, as well as some Germans, Belgians and Italians.
American citizens carry their luggage, as they walk towards a LCU (Landing Craft Utility) at a beach in Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, July 21, 2006, to be taken to the USS Trenton, which will evacuate 2,000 Americans to Cyprus. The United States prepared to ship about 5,000 Americans from Beirut Friday to nearly complete the evacuation of its citizens from Lebanon as the international exodus reached a peak.
A young American boy cries as he is carried to a United States Marine Chinook helicopter as he is evacuated from a landing pad at the U.S. Embassy, north of Beirut, Friday, July 21, 2006. The United States prepared to ship about 5,000 Americans from Beirut Friday to nearly complete the evacuation of its citizens from Lebanon as the international exodus reached a peak.
A young woman looks out one of the windows on the ferry Calypso upon arrival at port in Mersin, Turkey, Friday, July 21, 2006. The ferry was chartered by the Canadian government to evacuate Canadian nationals from Lebanon.
An American citizen pleads with Lebanese police to let him in after waiting for hours at a center where American citizens are being processed to be evacuated from a beach north of the capital Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, July 21, 2006. The United States prepared to ship about 5,000 Americans from Beirut Friday to nearly complete the evacuation of its citizens from Lebanon as the international exodus reached a peak.
U.S. Marines help bring evacuees on board a LCU (Landing Craft Utility) from a beach in Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday, July 20, 2006. Around 1,200 Americans fleeing fighting are being taken by LCU to the USS Nashville, and transported to Cyprus.
U.S. Marines help bring evacuees on board a LCU (Landing Craft Utility) from a beach in Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday, July 20, 2006. Around 1,200 Americans fleeing fighting were being taken by LCU to the USS Nashville, and transported to Cyprus.
U.S. Marines help bring evacuees on board a LCU (Landing Craft Utility) from a beach in Beirut, Lebanon, July 20, 2006. Around 1,200 Americans were to be taken by LCU to the USS Nashville, and transported to Cyprus.
Norwegian officer Tore Rosseid, a United Nations Truce Supervisor, holds his son Jonas, 7, while waiting to be evacuated out of Lebanon at the port of the southern Lebanon city of Tyre, Thursday, July 20, 2006. The U.N. organized an evacuation operation for 642 trapped persons, including 140 family members of U.N. personal operating in Lebanon. Two boats carried evacuated foreigners toward a waiting Greek cruise ship.
Foreigners, mainly Indian nationals, line up next to the Indian military ship Mumbai, as they wait to be evacuated at the port in the capital city of Beirut, Lebanon Thursday, July 20, 2006 as thousands of foreigners continued their attempts to flee the country. Israeli warplanes launched new air strikes on Beirut's southern suburbs, a Hezbollah stronghold, shortly after daybreak.
An evacuated woman and her child look out from a window from the Orient Queen cruise ship after arriving from Beirut, Lebanon, in the port of Larnaca, Cyprus, July 20, 2006.
Evacuees from Lebanon talk with aid workers after they arrived at the Baltimore Washington International Airport from Cyprus early Thursday, July 20, 2006.
American citizens show their families' passports to U.S. Marines as they wait behind barricades in the sweltering heat in a coastal center near the U.S. embassy north of Beirut, Lebanon for their names to be called in order to be be processed for evacuation from the war-torn country, July 19, 2006.
A Lebanese Swedish woman holds her baby girl as she bids farewell to her parents, while being evacuated from Lebanon, along with others, on a bus organized by the Swedish embassy, from a road intersection, leading out of the Hezbollah stronghold of south Beirut, Lebanon, July 18, 2006.
U.S. Marines unload supplies from a military helicopter before evacuating American citizens from the grounds of the U.S. Embassy in Aukar at the northern edge of Beirut, Lebanon, July 18, 2006.
French toddler Natalie Pierret, 3, rests her head on her father's shoulder as they wait in line to be evacuated from Lebanon near the French embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, Monday, July 17, 2006. Hundreds of French citizens, mostly of Lebanese origin or partners in mixed marriages, gathered in a Christian Beirut neighborhood near their embassy to be evacuated amid growing signs that the conflict in Lebanon may drag on.
A French baby sleeps next to luggage as French expatriates wait to be evacuated from Lebanon near the French embassy in Beirut, Monday, July 17, 2006. Hundreds of French citizens, mostly of Lebanese origin or partners in mixed marriages, gathered in a Christian Beirut neighborhood near their embassy to be evacuated amid growing signs that the conflict in Lebanon may drag on.
French expatriates stand on observation decks of the Greek cruise liner Ierapetra at the port of Beirut, Lebanon, as they wait to be evacuated to Cyprus, Monday, July 17, 2006. Hundreds of French citizens and other Europeans were evacuating on the ship chartered by the French government, Israel appeared to be allowing evacuation ships through its blockade of the country.