A crab covered with oil crawls along Ramlet El-Baida public beach (White
Beach) which is polluted with heavy fuel oil in Beirut, 29 July 2006. The
Mediterranean is threatened by its worst ever environmental disaster after
Israel's bombing of a power plant in Lebanon sent thousands of tonnes of
fuel gushing into the sea, the environment minister charged today.
(AFP/Ramzi Haidar)