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Russian radars detect launch of two ballistic missiles from Mediterranean Sea - Israel first denies knowledge then claims responsibility for 'test launch from fighter jet'

Tomahawk submarine launch
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Russia's early warning radars detected the launch of two ballistic rockets in the eastern Mediterranean Sea, Russia's Defense Ministry stated. Israel later claimed responsibility for firing the target test rockets.

The launch took place at 06:16 GMT Tuesday, according to Russia's Ministry of Defense.

The trajectory of the missiles is reported to have been from the central part of the Mediterranean Sea towards the eastern landmass. Both rockets have allegedly fallen into the sea, RIA Novosti news agency reported.

Russia's President Putin has already been informed about the incident by Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu.

The Syrian embassy in Moscow currently has no information on the incident.

There were no rocket attack signals or blasts in Damascus, the Russian embassy in Syria noted.

Comment: So the original story was that Israel denied having any knowledge about these alleged missiles being launched.

Israel then later claimed responsibility for firing the two 'test' rockets.

Since RT first published this article on 3 September, they updated it with new and completely contradictory information on 4 September:
Israel claims joint US missile launch in Mediterranean for 'target practice'

Israel says it carried out a "joint" US missile launch in the Mediterranean, having earlier claimed ignorance. Russian radars detected two ballistic rockets fired in the region on Tuesday, sparking widespread speculation over who was behind the launch.

A spokesperson for the Israeli army confirmed that a launch of a missile had been carried out 9:15am local time (06:15 GMT), adding that US forces in the Mediterranean had been given prior warning of the drill.

A fighter jet launched an Ankor-type ("Sparrow") missile as part of a drill to test the Israeli missile defense system. However, earlier, when the Russian government announced it had detected the firing of "two ballistic objects" in the area, Israel insisted it had no "information on this issue yet."

Despite Israeli claimed of a "joint US" missile launch, the American Navy maintained that no rockets were launched by US forces in the region.

"No missiles were fired from US ships in the Mediterranean," said the spokesman, who made no further comment on the matter.

Other members of the international community were quick to follow suit with France, UK and Italy denying any knowledge of the test launch. NATO said it was investigating the incident.

The Pentagon later admitted that the Israeli missile test in the Mediterranean was carried out "with technical support of the US Defense Department."

The test was also "pre-planned," according to the US Defense Department spokesman George Little quoted by Itar-Tass.

The Israeli Defense Ministry confirmed a US defense agency took part in a "successful flight test of the new version of the Sparrow target missile" in an e-mail statement to RT Arabic.

"Israel's Missile Defense Organization and the US Missile Defense Agency officials conducted the flight test. The main contractor for the integration and development of the Sparrow is Rafael and the main contractor of the Arrow Weapon System is MLM of Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) in conjunction with Boeing," the statement explained.

The Russian Defense Ministry initially reported that "two ballistic objects" were picked up on radars in the central Mediterranean and were moving towards the East. Later, citing a security source inside the Syrian government, RIA Novosti reported that the rockets had fallen into the sea.

Meanwhile, Syria's missile detection system did not pick up any rockets landing on Syrian territory, a security source told Lebanese channel al-Manar TV.
So now the Israelis have claimed they fired at least one of these missiles from a fighter jet, (which may or may not have been done with US knowledge or assistance) although that still leaves unexplained the Russian statement that both missiles were launched from the sea...
Pentagon: Israel test-fires missile, U.S. helps

Earlier, Russia announced that its early warning system detected the launch of two missiles in the sea. Russia's state-run news outlet RIA Novosti said the launch was detected Tuesday morning by radar in the southern Russian city of Armavir, citing a Defense Ministry spokesman.

"The targets' trajectories ran from the central to the eastern Mediterranean," RIA Novosti reported, citing the spokesman.
Stay tuned for more madness from the Zionists...


MIB

Are spy agencies once again lying ... this time to justify war against Syria?

Lying snake
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Congressman with top-secret briefing isn't impressed with Syrian war claims.

Antiwar argues:
The only reason the whole allegation [that the Syrian government used chemical weapons] hasn't been dismissed out of hand is the administration's repeated claims that they have better, secret intelligence that they're just not showing anyone, or occasionally are letting already pro-war Congressmen get a glimpse of.
But - as the Weekly Standard reports - some Congressmen who have gotten a classified briefing aren't impressed:
"I have just attended a classified Congressional briefing on Syria that quite frankly raised more questions than it answered. I found the evidence presented by Administration officials to be circumstantial" .... liberal Democrat Tom Harkin says in a statement released after today's classified Capitol Hill briefing.

Evil Rays

Yes, the Syrian rebels DO have access to chemical weapons

Al-nusra
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One of the U.S. government's main justifications for its claim that the Syrian government carried out a chemical weapons attack is that the rebels don't have chemical weapons.

However, multiple lines of evidence show that the rebels do have chemical weapons.

V

The British public has its say: Two-thirds oppose strikes on Syria

FSA fighter in Aleppo
© UnknownMercenary fighter paid for by Saudi Arabia seen fighting in the old city of Aleppo
The Iraq War has turned the British public against any military intervention in the Middle East, according to a ComRes survey for The Independent.

By a margin of two-to-one, the British people oppose President Barack Obama's plan for military strikes against the Assad regime and say that the UK should keep out of all conflicts in the region for the foreseeable future.

David Cameron and Nick Clegg yesterday rejected growing all-party pressure from MPs and peers for another Commons vote on whether British forces should join air strikes in Syria, only four days after MPs rejected the Prime Minister's plan to take part.

But Philip Hammond, the Defence Secretary, said the Government could revisit the question if circumstances changed "very significantly".

Briefcase

Number of Syrian refugees passes 2 million: UNHCR

Syrian Refugees
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The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has announced that the number of Syrian refugees, who have fled the country's 29-month-long conflict, has passed the two million mark.

"Syria is hemorrhaging women, children and men who cross borders often with little more than the clothes on their backs," the UNHCR said in a statement on Tuesday.

The UN refugee agency also said that some 4.25 million people have also been displaced inside Syria since the crisis began in 2011.

Some 1.8 million Syrian have fled the country over the past 12 months, and an average of 5,000 people continue to cross Syria's borders into neighboring countries every day, the UNHCR said.

The UN figures showed that, on August 23, the number of children living as refugees passed one million.

Brick Wall

US isolated on Syria, in the midst of strategic retreat: Allen Roland

Barack Obama
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Press TV has conducted an interview with Allen Roland, online columnist, from Sonoma California, about the issue of US President Obama now formally seeking congressional approval for a war against Syria.

The following is an approximate transcript of the interview.

Press TV: Why do you think Obama has stalled the attack on Syria and is now seeking congressional approval for the military strike?

Roland: Well, let me make it simple - The game is up.

When the British parliament did not back Cameron's parliamentary procedure to basically OK an attack in Syria, the game was up.

Led by George Galloway, the game was up.

Obama is not about to stand by himself. Secondly, there is very serious reservations about the evidence of poison gas - sarin; and there is a very good likelihood this was supplied by Saudi Arabia and Israelis, to the rebels. So there is no question.
So, right now Obama is executing the Obama straddle where is making a retreat while blustering that he is making an attack.

Attention

USS Nimitz carrier group sails into Red Sea in 'prudent' move

USS Nimitz
© Reuters/Hugh GentryThe USS Nimitz sails about 150 miles north of the island of Oahu during the RIMPAC Naval exercises off Hawaii July 18,2012.
The USS Nimitz aircraft carrier and four other ships in its strike group moved into the Red Sea early on Monday, U.S. defense officials said, describing the move as "prudent planning" in case the ships are needed for military action against Syria.

The officials said the Nimitz entered the Red Sea around 6 a.m. EDT (1000 GMT), but the strike group had not received any orders to move into the Mediterranean, where five U.S. destroyers and an amphibious ship, the USS San Antonio, remain poised for possible cruise missile strikes against Syria.

Moving the Nimitz into the Red Sea was aimed at putting more U.S. assets in place if they are needed to support what U.S. officials still describe as a limited attack against Syria after it used chemical weapons against civilians.

"It does place that strike group in a position to respond to a variety of contingencies," said one official, who was not authorized to speak publicly.

The nuclear-powered Nimitz is accompanied by the Princeton, a cruiser, and three destroyers - the William P. Lawrence, Stockdale and Shoup, according to the officials.

They said there had been no change regarding six U.S. Navy ships now in the eastern Mediterranean, but military planners were reassessing the situation given a delay in the cruise missile strikes that had been expected this past weekend.

President Barack Obama on Saturday backed off imminent strikes by the destroyers off the coast of Syria until Congress had time to vote its approval. Defense officials said the delay gave them more time to reassess which ships and other weapons will be kept in the region - and whether some may be allowed to leave. Congress returns to Washington September 9.

The U.S. Navy doubled its presence in the eastern Mediterranean in the past week, effectively adding two destroyers to the three that generally patrol the region, and diverting the San Antonio, which carries four massive CH-53 helicopters and 300 Marines, from another mission.

Two of the destroyers were due to be relieved but are now serving along with the ships that were to replace them.

Arrow Down

Monsanto insiders dump stock as the truth about GMOs spreads across Wall Street

Monsanto
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Monsanto executives and insiders are dumping Monsanto stock in record volumes, sending the stock price spiraling downward. CEO Hugh Grant just sold off 40,000 shares at $97.74, and both Janet Holloway and Gerald Steiner - both high-level Monsanto executives - recently ditched more than 10,000 shares each. Tom Hartley also bailed on another 6,000 shares at $100.15.

Hedge funds, meanwhile, are also dumping Monsanto stock, most likely due to sharply increased "negative sentiment." This means people increasingly don't like Monsanto, and that's a direct result of all the growing realizations about the dangers of GMOs, Monsanto's predatory business practices, the company's dangerous experiments that have already unleashed genetic pollution, and the fact that GM corn has been experimentally found to cause widespread cancer tumors in rat studies.

Just the fact that Monsanto's GE wheat trials got out of control and contaminated a wheat field in Oregon - causing Japan and South Korea to ban U.S. wheat imports - has resulted in 150 groups now demanding the USDA keep a tighter lid on Monsanto's GMO experiments. These groups are fed up with seeing the market value of their crops destroyed by sloppy "open field" experiments being conducted by Monsanto that spread genetic pollution across the country and contaminate non-GMO crops. (Monsanto goes even further and actually sues the farmers whose fields they contaminated!)

Target

Impeachment: congress fires opening shot across Obama's bow

"Mr. President, in the case of military operations in Libya you stated that authorization from Congress was not required because our military was not engaged in "hostilities." In addition, an April 1, 2011, memorandum to you from your Office of Legal Counsel concluded:..."President Obama could rely on his constitutional power to safeguard the national interest by directing the anticipated military operations in Libya - which were limited in their nature, scope, and duration - without prior congressional authorization.'"

"We view the precedent this opinion sets, where "national interest" is enough to engage in hostilities without congressional authorization, as unconstitutional."
Text from letter of Rep. Scott Regall (R, VA) to Pres. Obama
Signed by 140 Reps, including 21 Democrats
The letter of Scott Regall (1) to Barak Obama has exploded on the scene with its opening words:

Comment: What if enough Americans contacted their representatives NOW, and demanded that Obama be impeached (and Bush indicted) for his crimes against humanity, which he perpetuates in their names, when in fact the American people are against such bloody wars and tired of being hated around the world for their president's unconscionable actions. Who knows, maybe hundreds and thousands of lives will be saved!


Nuke

Japan's online nuclear reactors to be halted

Ohi nuclear plant
© UnknownOhi nuclear plant
The only 2 nuclear reactors online in Japan will soon be shut down for regular inspections. That means all nuclear power generators in the country will be offline for the first time in about 14 months.

Due to the nuclear disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant in 2011, all of Japan's nuclear reactors were offline at one point in the past 2 years.

But last year, Kansai Electric Power Company, the operator of the Ohi nuclear power plant on the Sea of Japan, restarted the facility's Number 3 and Number 4 reactors.

The 2 are the only reactors currently online in Japan.

On Monday afternoon, Kansai Electric began lowering the power output of the Number 3 reactor for regular inspections. The reactor will come to a halt on Tuesday morning.

The plant operator also plans to halt the Number 4 reactor for a regular check on September 15th.

To gain approval for the restart of their offline reactors, Ohi and 5 other nuclear plants are undergoing assessments by the Nuclear Regulation Authority.