israeli F-16s fire over German ships
Two Israeli warplanes have fired over a German naval vessel patrolling off the Lebanese coast, the defence ministry in Berlin says.Surprise, surprise.
Two Israeli F-16 fighters flew low over the ship, firing twice, Der Tagesspiegel newspaper quoted a German junior defence minister as telling a parliamentary committee.
The jets also activated infrared countermeasures to ward off any rocket attack, the paper said, in an advance release ahead of Thursday's edition.
The minister did not say when the incident happened or what had caused it.
"I can confirm that there was an incident," a ministry spokesman said on Wednesday. He declined to give further details as an investigation was under way.
An Israeli military spokeswoman denied that the incident had taken place.
Germany assumed command of a United Nations naval force off Lebanon 10 days ago, and has sent eight ships and 1,000 service personnel to join the international peace operation in the region.
The naval force is charged with preventing weapons-smuggling and helping maintain a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah.
The Israeli air force has come under heavy criticism for continuing flights over southern Lebanon since a 34-day war between Israel and Hezbollah ended on August 14 with a UN-sponsored truce and the expansion of the United Nations peacekeeping force.
Amir Peretz, Israel's defence minister, said at the weekend that the flights would continue because of alleged arms smuggling to Hezbollah.
The Lebanese government and the UN say the overflights, which Israel had conducted since ending its 22-year occupation of south Lebanon in 2000, violate both the latest truce and the terms of Israel's earlier pullout.
Anyone who thinks israel is finished with Lebanon can wakeup now.
The battle has just begun.
posted by qrswave @ Wednesday, October 25, 2006
2 Comments:
tgr, thanks for posting the article about the German soldiers - appalling.
I'm not surprised at the responses of shock coming from German officials. I could never picture the few Germans I met doing something like that.
However, there are some young people who are just that stupid and clueless about even their own humanity to do something that insensitive and repugnant.
It seems that youth in the west are deliberately de-moralized to enable them to be better worker and killer bees. When you have no sense of society and humanity you tend to work harder for money and self-gratification.
Was going to post that yesterday, but there was an error on blogger.. Anyway who didn't see that coming..
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