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2006-07-19 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

4 Indian warships to dock at Beirut for evacuation

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Posted by john 2006-07-19 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11131 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 12,000 Indians?? I can understand that most of the 25,000 US passport holders are really Lebanese, but what are so many Indians doing there? Surely Lebanon can provide its own doctors and computer programmers, and unskilled labourers!

Posted by trailing wife 2006-07-19 07:56|| 2006-07-19 07:56|| Front Page Top

#2 well, since one-sixth of the world is indian, it's likely they are just everywhere, even Lebanon.

Posted by sludge 2006-07-19 08:11|| 2006-07-19 08:11|| Front Page Top

#3 So we can expect to find, what, 14-15,000 Chinese there?

:)

Posted by Ebbock Hupoling3283 2006-07-19 08:17|| 2006-07-19 08:17|| Front Page Top

#4 well, thanks for blowing my crazy logic to bits... but then again, there just might be that many chinese there.

Posted by sludge 2006-07-19 08:31|| 2006-07-19 08:31|| Front Page Top

#5 Cheap labor, sending remittences home. There are Indians all over Saudi and the Gulf States, and the sheikhs go to Lebanon to play, so I'm not too surprised some Indians found their way here, too.

Posted by Rory B. Bellows 2006-07-19 08:35|| 2006-07-19 08:35|| Front Page Top

#6 Lol, sludge, I was just funnin' with you - you're probably correct in your speculation as they do export almost anyone who's 98.6 and, more or less, willing to work abroad.

I wouldn't be surprised if there was one very lonely Esquimeaux somewhere in there, too. :)

Posted by Ebbock Hupoling3283 2006-07-19 08:51|| 2006-07-19 08:51|| Front Page Top

#7 first time Indian Navy has entered the Med?

longer term implications?

Posted by liberalhawk 2006-07-19 10:03|| 2006-07-19 10:03|| Front Page Top

#8 Not first time LH, but got there pretty damn quick.

Posted by 6 2006-07-19 14:23|| 2006-07-19 14:23|| Front Page Top

#9 As a result of the trouble that Lebanon has been experiencing since the early 90's, there is a tremendous amount of expatriot Lebanese, professional and business, spread throughtout the West and have aquired dual citizenship . Many of these folks or their families have returned over recent years as temporary residents or visitors. All of a sudden thousands want to leave.

Canada alone is looking at 25000 to 40000 ~~human shields~~evacuees. the scope of this evacuation will overshadow war talk in the next few days. Beruit's Dunkirk.

Posted by john">john 2006-07-19 14:52|| 2006-07-19 14:52|| Front Page Top

#10 Wonder if they'll load those Indian naval vessels the way they do trains.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2006-07-19 15:08|| 2006-07-19 15:08|| Front Page Top

#11 Nimble: might be doable if it's for a short hop to Cyprus. Hanging over the bow of the ship might get hairy for a long trip back to India...

Posted by sludge 2006-07-19 15:22|| 2006-07-19 15:22|| Front Page Top

#12 When Saddam invaded Kuwait, India evacuated 150 000 of its citizens from Kuwait, Saudi and Iraq.

Posted by john 2006-07-19 18:37|| 2006-07-19 18:37|| Front Page Top

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