Lebanese Oil Spill

See the pic above? It shows the 'Lebanese Oil Spill of 2006'. I don't know that I'd call it a spill. A spill makes you think it was an accident. The Lebanese 'spill' is the result of Israeli bombing and an assortment of other causes. Beirut's Mayor Abdel Monem Ariss:

...it appeared other factors also contributed to the environmental disaster _ a leak from an Egyptian commercial boat that was apparently hit by a Hezbollah missile off Beirut, another from an Israeli gunboat also hit by Hezbollah, as well as effluent from a cement factory in northern Lebanon that attacked by Israeli forces.

So, help is on the way right?

A shipment of 10 trucks from Kuwait containing material and equipment was to arrive Friday night via Syria to help contain the spill, but crews cannot get to the shores to start cleanup work because of the hostilities

Well that sucks. This would easily be the biggest story on earth and you'd see a massive international repsonse to clean this up. It's already polluted Lebanese and Syrian beaches and appears headed to Greece and Turkey...

Note: the spill occured over a week ago. Have you heard of it?

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