Israel's worst-kept military secret has taken flight on its air force's new Internet site. Web surfers can now see what most Israelis, and countries with access to spy satellite photographs, have known for years - the locations of all 12 military airfields in the Jewish state.
Military censorship had dictated "Somewhere in Israel" datelines for news stories from air force bases. But the airfields and their names now appear, in Hebrew, on a map of Israel at the www.iaf.org.il site.
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