Ivy Leaguers Leave Lebanon First and Fast Through Private Security Firms
http://www.counterpunch.com/cpnewsdesk07252006.html...
When fighting broke out in Lebanon, college students studying there for the summer anxiously awaited their turn to evacuate. As it turns out, if you were an Ivy League student in Beirut, your turn came first.Among those enrolled in the summer Arabic program at the American University of Beirut, students told ABC News, those from Harvard, Yale and Princeton were in the first group evacuated – by high-end private security firms. Students from other American schools were left behind, waiting it out for days while the U.S. embassy formulated its plan.
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The students left behind recall their frustration and a feeling of isolation. One student who wanted to remain anonymous for security reasons said, "It was unfair that the private, wealthy schools were afforded the luxury of a quick evacuation." Both her university and her government, she says, failed to help her out of a dangerous situation.
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Harvard, Princeton and Yale are insured by International SOS and Medex, two private security companies.
Arriving with well-equipped teams, these companies arranged everything for students from land- and air-route evacuations, to hotel rooms, to cold bottles of water at the Syrian border.
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