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Thursday, October 26, 2006

Israeli Fighter Jets in 'Incident' with German Warship off Lebanon

2 F-16s releasing FlaresTwo Israeli warplanes have been involved in an armed incident with a German warship patrolling the Lebanon coast as part of the U.N. peacekeeping force.
A spokesman for the command of the German mission in Lebanon said Wednesday it was investigating the incident that took place on Monday.

According to Thursday's edition of the German Tagesspiegel newspaper, two Israeli F-16 warplanes fired shots as well as anti-missile defense flares while flying low over the vessel.

The newspaper said the incident had been reported to the German parliament on Wednesday by a state secretary in the defense ministry, Christian Schmidt.

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