US pulls non-essential staff from Beirut, SE Turkey

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Obama and Putin hold unproductive face-to-face. US pulls non-essential staff from Beirut, SE Turkey
Russian Nikolai Filchenkov landing ship for Syria
Russian Nikolai Filchenkov landing ship for Syria
DEBKAfile Special Report Sep 6, 2013, 4:59 PM (IDT)

The US Friday, Sept. 6, ordered the withdrawal of non-emergency workers from the embassy in Beirut and the consulate general in Adana, southeast Turkey, and warned Americans against traveling to those areas. The State Department acted after an unscheduled 20-minute one-on-one meeting between Presidents Barack Obama and Vladimir Putin on the G20 sidelines at St. Petersburg apparently ended in discord on the Syrian crisis. Another Russian landing craft is headed for the Mediterranean carrying a “special cargo” thought to contain S-300 batteries against a US attack.
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