Oil Spill at the Lebanese Coast
In the course of the conflict in the Middle East, the oil-fuelled power plant of Jieh, located directly on the coastline approximately 30 km south of Beirut was hit by bombs on July 13 and 15, 2006. Part of the storage tanks caught fire and were burning for several days. A large part of the fuel was spilled into the Mediterranean Sea as a result of the blast. The Lebanese ministry of environment estimated that approximately 30,000 tons of heavy fuel oil were emmitted into the sea.
It may not be photos of dead, blown-up human babies, but this is just one more nasty casualty of the war.
And, as usual, under-reported by just about everyone.
Just as a sidebar, per the new rules about posting photographs, I started a flickr.com account and posted these, and others, from my hard-drive onto the flickr site. Looking at it now, it's one depressing homage to the Bush years:
Link is here.