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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Malnurtured Snay: [QB] Bullshit it was an accident, those who claim it was don't like to admit that the Israeli government bit the hand that fed it. [QUOTE]A National Security Agency summary of the incident says the Israelis were confused over the stricken ship's identity more than an hour after the attack. [/QUOTE]I guess they just didn't see the really big American flag flying over it. I guess they didn't hear the radio communications from the ship identifying itself (before, during, and after the attack). I guess the fact that the Liberty didn't look ANYTHING like an Egyptian ship was just conveniently ignored. And BTW, the Israeli pilots confirmed the identity of the ship before they began the attack. Cristol is a known liar, and his reports can not be trusted - many people refute his claims that he has interviewed him. The inquiries own legal counsel, Capt. Ward Boston, is now saying publicly that the [b]attack was deliberate and that the Court reported otherwise falsely because it was ordered by Washington to report falsely[/b]. Bullshit it was an accident. I trust people who were THERE: [URL=http://www.ussliberty.com]www.ussliberty.com[/URL] [QUOTE]Melvin Smith, senior enlisted intercept chief, reassured Ennes when he overheard the pilots several times identify the flag as U.S. and the ship for what she was. At that time, of course, Israel was a friend. Later, despite jamming of the ship's distress frequencies, and before all her transmitters were shot away, the Liberty's radio operators managed again to hear the attackers make a positive identification in the clear[/QUOTE] [QUOTE]Ennes, who maintained logs about such details, disagrees. He says that even at the Liberty's slowest steaming speed of 5 knots, the wind put 12 knots across Old Glory and kept it waving. Since the ship was near a combat zone, the crew also was ordered to keep "head's-up" by then-Commander William McGonagle, the ship's captain. Ensuring unfurled colors was a given. And after the normal flag was shot down early on, McGonagle ordered signalmen to hoist the bright new holiday ensign, measuring 7-by-13 feet.[/QUOTE] [QUOTE]Principally, the El Quseir lacked the U.S. ship's unique add-ons, which included, both topside, an 18-foot-wide satellite dish nearly as tall as the smokestack and a wading pool-sized microwave dish. The ship bristled, as well, with video capture antennae and other exotica found on no other vessel in the world, much less decrepit Arab transport ships. Ancillary reasons the "deliberate school" rejects Judge Cristol's El Quseir defense are as follows: The Egyptian craft: * Flew colors markedly dissimilar to the U.S. flag * Was one-quarter of the Liberty's tonnage and just nearly half her length * Had been out of service for many months & was waiting to be scrapped in Alexandria *Was illustrated—along with the Liberty—in Jane's Fighting Ships, to which Israel had access[/QUOTE] [/QB][/QUOTE]
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