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| Brit warships arriving off Lebanese coast |
| 2006-07-19 |
| LONDON - The first of six British navy ships was arriving off Lebanon on Tuesday in order to carry out the first large-scale evacuation of Britons, Prime Minister Tony Blair said Tuesday. “We have acted as quickly as we possibly can,” Blair told reporters in London as the ships moved into the region to whisk away those among the 10,000 British nationals and 12,000 dual nationals who wanted to escape. “We have taken out of Lebanon (by helicopter) the first 60 people and that was done yesterday. The first ship will come today so obviously we can take far larger numbers out. We have round about six ships now in the region,” he said. “We have a rapid deployment team there in Beirut. We will do everything we can to get people out as quickly as we can. “This has been a big logistical operation -- we’ve also had to put reinforcements into (British bases in) Cyprus as well where people will be taken to. “We are doing absolutely everything we can to make sure the evacuation happens as swiftly and as properly as possible,” he stressed. Foreign Office minister Kim Howells said Monday that Britain was preparing for the biggest evacuation carried out by its military since World War II. |
| Posted by:Steve White |
| #4 We don't recognize dual citizenship. When you become a citizen of the United States one of the requisites is that you give up all allegience to any other country. However, and here's the sweet part, other countries do recognize dual citizenship. It would cost me $75,000.00 to become a foreign national. I don't have to renounce my US citizenship. And yet I can become a citizen of another country. That allows me to take funds earned as a citizen of that country and pay the going tax rate of that country for funds received as a citizen of that country. And if you look at the tax code, there are exceptions for earnings overseas. Sweet. But back to the point. Since, as a condition of US citizenship, you must renounce your citizenship of another country, ipso facto, you're not a dual national. Get it? I do believe that carrying a passport as a national of another nation is due cause for revocation of your US citizenship. But what bureacracy is enforcing this distinction? Can you guess? It's State. And they don't have the funding to deal with it.(And have you asked the reasonable question yet:"Are Mexicans granted US citizenship allowed dual status by the Mexican government?" Sheesh. The stuff your guvernment don't tell ya. |
| Posted by: OregonGuy 2006-07-19 23:24 |
| #3 I'm about ready to kick the shit out of any more whining Americans (especially dual citizenship) who act like we owe them evacuation RIGHT NOW when they visited the freaking war zone and the country that's belligerent (in the south for sure) against a US ally. If I hear another "the water's cold and my pillow's hard, and the cruise ship was late" I'm gonna beat somebody with a cluebat |
| Posted by: Frank G 2006-07-19 21:44 |
| #2 We are having some issues with dual citizenship here in Australia. People are calling for the Australians to be evacuated first, while those Lebanese-Australians who hold dual-citizenship passports and who have been living in Lebanon, should be second on the list. But first we need to find some form of transport where we can get the Aussies on and out of that shit hole known as Lebanon. The Govt. has tried, is trying and will continue to try to evacuate citizens, but nothing is going right for the stranded Aussies at the moment. |
| Posted by: Oztralian 2006-07-19 20:40 |
| #1 12,000 dual nationals Difficult for me to understand. Can anyone tell me why this dual cit thing is permitted? |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2006-07-19 05:48 |