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USA billing its citizen for evacuation from Beirut

USA billing its citizen for evacuation from Beirut

from Boing Boing:

"They are finally getting everything together today, but they dropped a little surprise: they are going to be billing us for giving us emergency transport to Cyprus, and then basically dropping us off on our own to get commercial flights back to the US. Most other goverrnments evacuating people here are actually flying them back to their home country without cost. But not the USG."

"In statements e-mailed to Americans in Lebanon and posted on the embassy's Web site, the State Department has stressed "that the U.S. government does not provide no-cost transportation but does have the authority to provide repatriation loans to those in financial need. For the portion of your trip directly handled by the U.S. Government we will ask you to sign a promissory note and we will bill you at a later date."

some more details here: http://msnbc.msn.com/id/13903377/

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ReBlogged by ann p on Jul 18, 2006 at 08:18 AM Posted by ann p on Jul 18, 2006 at 08:18 AM

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