Laying it on thick Sometimes, I get the feeling that AFP is trying to get Greenpeace into this war: A Lebanese man walks on a public beach polluted with heavy fuel oil in Beirut, July 2006... could rival the Exxon Valdez disaster... if not urgently addressed, the United Nations has said. (AFP/File/Patrick Baz) A crab covered in oil struggles towards the sea polluted with oil in Beirut, July 2006. (AFP/File/Patrick Baz)(The redundancy must be there to more fully express the urgency in stopping the "violent polluters" from Israel, no doubt...) Of course, we all know what happened the LAST time...