Tales from "Australians" fleeing Lebanon

Most are in fact Lebanese who live in Lebanon but who have acquired Australian papers at some stage



A few presses on her mobile phone keypad to look at the photos stored inside quash any doubts Jouliana Yazbeck has about fleeing Beirut. Captured on the screen is the exact moment that convinced the Sydney student, 21, and her cousins Laila and Alex Ajaka to abandon their Lebanon holiday. Snapped from the balcony of their uncle's house, the alarming image shows a bomb blast which killed two people just streets away. Within an hour of taking the picture at about 7am Lebanon time on July 18, the trio decided to leave the emerging war-zone as fast as they could....

They made their way to Ajaltoun, and then to a port where they were able to board an Australian-chartered ferry to Turkey. They remained in the Turkish port of Mersin yesterday, trying to work out the best way to get home. They were considering an Australian Government offer of a flight from Ankara to Frankfurt with a three-day wait before hitting Australian soil, but were also investigating other options.....

Also trying to work out how to get home yesterday was the Bazzi family, of Sydney. Mother-of-four Ahlam Bazzi was one of 20 members of her family to spend seven nights and eight days in a basement room of a friend's house to avoid bomb attacks.

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