| mai said: While Obama et al. are busy searching for proof that Assad did that... ...two ICBMs launches have been detected in Mediterranean about 3 hours ago. Since we are all alive and kicking that wasn't a WW3, but still leaves a lot of people wondering if that had anything to do with Syria. Probably someone is running tests or drills though :D |
I just read about that - sounds like a rather strange story!
From what I get so far, at first both Israel and the US both pretty much tried to give the impression that they know nothing. A few hours later however, Israel admitted having launched a missile, in cooperation with US forces. But they claim it was launched from central Israel, while Russia says it was launched in the center of the the mediteranian sea, and towards the easter mediteranian sea. Furthermore, as far I get it, so far only one missile has been admitted, and the US still claims not having shot any missile...
I visited a whole number of german news media to find some more information about the incident, but what's strange is that it almost seems like these media try to avoid this story getting attention. Germany's famous magazine "Der Spiegel" for example had an article about it that got about 60 pages of comments in almost no time. That's a helluva lot for one of their articles, so obviously many people were interested in it. And yet, any trace of the article had soon been removed from their front page (most people looking for news only read news articles listed on the front page). The same is true for many other very prominent german news media like the "Süddeutsche Zeitung", the "BILD-Zeitung", the "FAZ", "FOCUS", "heute" etc...
