Israeli PM's secret trip irks media (not about Palistine)

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http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2009/09/20099115339794467.html


Israel's media has responded angrily after government officials allegedly gave misleading statements to cover up a clandestine trip to Russia by Binyamin Netanyahu, the prime minister.

Netanyahu reportedly flew to Moscow on Monday for urgent talks on Iran, but a statement from his military secretary claimed he had been visiting "a security facility" inside Israel.

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Yossi Sarid, writing in Israel's Haaretz newspaper, said that the "lies" told about the reported visit to Russia "harm Israel's credibility".

Gil Hoffman wrote in the Jerusalem Post that the alleged cover-up was a sign of Netanyahu's "skewed" perception of threats to his position.

The previous day, the Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper and its main competitor, Maariv, ran the story under the identical headline: "Secrets and lies".

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Russia's Kommersant newspaper, citing a "highly placed source in the Kremlin," reported that it had confirmed the visit and speculated the talks had been on an extremely urgent matter "like Israel updating Russia on its intention to attack Iran".
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maybe he was hiking on a mountain trail

but seriously - why make a visit to Russia secret?