OIL SPILL ON LEBANON'S SHORELINE CAUSES ENVIRONMENTAL CATASTROPHE

A Lebanese man rescues a crab from oil covering the popular public beach of Ramlet el-Beida (White Sand) in Beirut on July 29, 2006. Much of Lebanon's coastline is covered in crude oil that spilled into the sea when Storage tanks at a power plant in Jiyeh, south of Beirut were targeted by Israeli jets. According to local environmentalists, 15,000 tons of oil leaked into the Mediterranean Sea. (UPI Photo/Norbert Schiller)