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September 13, 2006
oil and water
Israeli airstrikes on fuel tanks at a power station 20 miles south of Beirut caused the largest oil spill ever seen in the eastern Mediterranean Sea.
"And to be clear, drawing the conclusion that this environmental disaster was intentional is not taking sides in the conflict. It doesn't matter if the missiles that hit Jiyyeh were fired by Israel, Hezbollah or the pope. It was wrong. The attack reflects a malicious intent to inflict large-scale environmental damage with no strategic military value whatsoever. This seems more like warfare straight out of the Middle Ages, when hot oil was poured on the enemy beneath the castle walls."
Professor of Ocean Ecology, University of Alaska at Fairbanks and Co-director of the environmental NGO The Coastal Coalition.Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 10 September, 2006; p, J6; 'After the bombs, environmental calamity'
Richard Steiner,
Posted by williamfrick at September 13, 2006 11:42 AM