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nam78_two Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-29-06 12:15 PM
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Lebanon's environment: a casualty of war :(
Edited on Sat Jul-29-06 12:28 PM by nam78_two
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/29/world/middleeast/29environment.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

In the human toll we forget the other things that are getting ravaged over there...

I have on a few rare occasions met environmentalists who are hawkish....its a position tht makes no sense.

Any war, any kind of destruction ravages the environment......

Poor Lebanon-I have only seen images of that country but it looked so green and beautiful...









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Tom Joad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-29-06 12:21 PM
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1. It is a crime of ecocide by the Israeli military, and fully supported by
the man in your avatar, unfortunately. There were better ways to deal with this situation and hardly any political leader spoke up.
We have to stopAIPAC.org
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nam78_two Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-29-06 12:27 PM
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3. :( /nt
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JitterbugPerfume Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-29-06 12:23 PM
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2. Now the beaches are deserted
and the water is full of oil > the reporter on Democracy Now said it will take years to restore it --after the war is over :grr:
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respublicus Donating Member (99 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-29-06 01:30 PM
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5. Zionazis bomb oil tanks on beach - worst eco-catastrophe ever in the Med
I saw this story from Al Awda News but it was in French -
if you parlez vous, the link is
http://www.aloufok.net/article.php3?id_article=3276
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nam78_two Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-29-06 12:46 PM
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4. kick
Should I be posting this in environment?
I have just been posting mostly in discussion:politics.
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