AP: Americans May Still Be Stranded in Lebanon

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The United States expressed concern Tuesday about Americans, possibly hundreds of them, stranded in south Lebanon without safe passage to evacuation points in the capital Beirut and on the coast.

Meanwhile, foreigners fleeing the violence continued to stream into Cyprus, which warned Tuesday it had reached its limit and would need European Union help if it was to receive more evacuees.

"We are aware that there are an undetermined number of Americans at locations in southern Lebanon," the U.S. State Department said.

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Israeli airstrikes and sporadic incursions by ground troops have made it unsafe to travel in large areas of the country, especially the south where fighting was most intense.

"I got in a taxi (to Beirut), and he flew," said Mike Katieib, 32, a Lebanese-American hotel worker from Atlanta, Georgia, who was vacationing in the southern Lebanese city of Sidon and made it to Cyprus Tuesday on a ship. "The roads are scary, there is no safety on roads," Katieib said.

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