Israeli jets clash with German ship near Lebanon

[tocqueville]

2 hours, 27 minutes ago

BERLIN (Reuters) - Two Israeli warplanes and a German navy vessel have clashed off the Lebanese coast, the Defense Ministry in Berlin said on Wednesday without giving further details.

Germany daily Der Tagesspiegel earlier on Wednesday quoted a junior German defense minister as telling a parliamentary committee that two Israeli F-16 fighters flew low over the German ship and fired two shots.

The jets also released infra-red countermeasures to ward off any rocket attack, the paper quoted him as saying.

The minister did not say when the incident happened or what had caused it, the paper said.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061025/wl_nm/germany_israel_incident_dc_2

[Viva_La_Revolution]

1. Firing on the ship is a 'clash' !?

wtf?!

[whistle]

2. Son of a bitch!

[Solo_in_MD]

3. Dupe of another thread

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2579733

The IAF has already denied this, and there is not enough data in the original report to come to any conclusion. Key point would be the mode of the ships radar systems. Lots of possible scenarios, all conjecture until more is known. What data is out there is clearly incorrect.

[tocqueville]

6. didn't see the other thread, sorry. Here is some more...

Version #1

The IDF spokesman denied that the air force had attacked a ship or opened fire in the vicinity, but said that IAF jets had been launched early Tuesday when a helicopter took off from a German aircraft carrier in waters close to Rosh Hanikra without identifying itself in accordance with United Nations regulations. The incident was quickly solved without confrontation, the spokesman said, and only flares were fired.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/779428.html

so there was an incident.

[madrchsod]

4. great, the german`s are having a tough time

with the neo.nazi`s as it is let alone having the idf attacking a german ship. first it was the usa navy now the germans...

[mom cat]

5. Not exactly the kind of thing to win Germany over to support for

Isreali policies!

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[mom cat]

8. I wonder if there is any moral authoritty left outside of the Bolivarians.