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While most concern focuses on birds and mammals, the oil may have harmed less visible -- and less photogenic -- creatures such as the sand eel, which has already suffered in recent years from overharvesting. The eels are an important food for arctic terns and other birds that breed on the Shetlands during the summer. "The birds had been weakened in previous seasons here," says Tim Thomas, a wildlife officer for Britain's Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. "If the sand eel does not reproduce well this year because of the oil, the birds could be devastated...
Such reasoning has particular appeal in the Gaza Strip, where Hamas was born and remains strongest: there 780,000 Palestinians live on a cramped, barren swath of sand where jobs are few and living conditions harsh. Says "Omar," the 30-year-old product of a Gaza slum and now a Hamas activist: "I am a man with no home, no land, and so I have no identity. Islam gives me that identity...
Corporal Sotak served in the Gulf War last year. "I wasn't too enthused about kicking sand for another month or two," he says. "But this is real different. We didn't have much contact with the people in Saudi. Here they're all around us. In Saudi we had a defined enemy. Here you don't know who you can trust. You don't know who's just trying to defend himself and who's robbing everybody...
...This is a classic bring-your-own operation," says one four-star Army logistician. That means supplying their own night lights at the airport, radar systems for air-traffic control, generators -- and then fuel to run them. Logistics managers are sending three times the normal spare parts, worried that sand could be a constant problem...
...WIND, SAND & SILENCE...