Israel's terrorist attacks on Beirut International Airport, threaten civilian planes and passengers.

July 13, 2006 -- Israel's early morning attack on the runways of Beirut's Rafik Hariri International Airport yesterday endangered a number of aircraft that were landing, taking off, and taxiing, including those carrying U.S. citizens. The threat of igniting aviation fuel tanks close to nearby small hotels also threatened Lebanese and foreign civilians. The Bush administration has expressed support for the Israeli attack, even though Americans citizens were directly threatened in the attack. Among other airlines, British Airways, Lufthansa, Air France, Olympic Airlines, Scandinavian Airlines, Turkish Airlines, Tarom Romanian, Jat Serbian Airways, Cyprus Airways, Iberia, Austrian Airlines, LOT Polish Airlines, CSA Czech Airlines, Alitalia, Aeroflot, Egyptair, Kuwait Airways, Malev Hungarian, Royal Jordanian, DHL, and Royal Air Maroc, serve Beirut. The attack occurred at 6 am local time and two landing aircraft were forced to divert to Larnaca, Cyprus. The airport has been forced to close indefinitely. A number of foreign aircraft and passengers are stranded at Beirut airport, which reportedly received a second Israeli barrage today.

In Germany, George W. Bush said "Israel has a right to defend itself." Mr. Bush has obviously abrogated his responsibility to defend the lives and property of American citizens in his sycophantic support for an out-of-control regime dominated by wealthy Russian and Ukrainian criminal syndicates.

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