{"id":90,"date":"2006-07-24T12:01:37","date_gmt":"2006-07-24T12:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/fyi\/2006\/07\/24\/wabash-student-trying-to-leave-lebanon\/"},"modified":"2006-07-24T12:01:37","modified_gmt":"2006-07-24T12:01:37","slug":"wabash-student-trying-to-leave-lebanon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/2006\/07\/24\/wabash-student-trying-to-leave-lebanon\/","title":{"rendered":"Wabash Student Trying to Leave Lebanon"},"content":{"rendered":"

Howard W. Hewitt<\/i> – Labaki returned to campus July 27, safely making the trip from Beirut to Damascus. Read more about it here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

7\/24\/06<\/i> – Wassim Labaki \u201908 a Lebanon native is struggling to leave his home country and return to Wabash. The country has been war-torn for weeks now as the Israeli air force pounds Hezbollah strongholds trying to root out the Islamic terrorist organization. <\/p>\n

\"\"Labaki has been in communication with David Clapp, Director of International Students. In his e-mail correspondence, Labaki describes the situation near Beirut as \u201cextremely difficult\u201d and \u201cdangerous.\u201d<\/p>\n

Wassim lives in the mountainous suburbs of Beirut, in a village called Baabdat. He went to the U.S. Embassy trying to gain help returning to the states but reports he was turned away.<\/p>\n

Clapp also contacted Sen. Richard Lugar\u2019s office seeking some sort of assistance but got no reply to an inquiry for help. On his own, Labaki has found a flight out of Damascus, Syria, later this week.<\/p>\n

\u201cAlthough the road from Beirut to Damascus in not 100 percent safe, I have decided to take the risk,\u201d Labaki wrote to Clapp last week. \u201cMany people here are doing the same. It might be better to take risks now than later. I am leaving Beirut Wednesday and should be in Indy Thursday if nothing bad happens. I will be traveling alone without my family because it is extremely difficult to find tickets now. It is so sad to leave them in such a bad situation but I have no other choice.\u201d<\/p>\n

We\u2019ll update this blog entry later in the week with a report on Wassim\u2019s attempts to leave Lebanon and make his way back to Crawfordsville.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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