U.S. evacuees leave Libya after 3 days stuck in port by rough seas

maddezmom

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Fri Feb-25-11 10:17 AM
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U.S. evacuees leave Libya after 3 days stuck in port by rough seas

Source: MSNBC

The ordeal of hundreds of American and other foreign evacuees stuck on a ferry in a Libyan port for three days finally ended when the ship put to sea, heaving for the island of Malta.

The Maria Dolores left Tripoli's As-shahab port Friday at 1.37 p.m. local time (6:37 a.m. ET) to make the journey to Valetta, Malta.

The State Department initially said the vessel was carrying 285 evacuees including 167 U.S. citizens and 118 people of other nationalities. But it said Friday that more passengers were added before departure.

Most of the passengers have been aboard the catamaran since Wednesday, but high seas prevented it from leaving.

Read more: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41779038/ns/world_news-mideastn_africa/

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Fri Feb-25-11 10:46 AM
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1. Can you imagine how glad they were to finally ship out?

Three days on a catamaran in high seas while still within reach of an angry madman?

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David__77

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Fri Feb-25-11 02:54 PM
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2. I hope all the Westerners made it out and do soon.

I don't want the West to be able to use that as a pretext to intervene.

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