Post A Reply
my profile
|
directory
login
|
search
|
faq
|
forum home
»
Flare Sci-Fi Forums
»
Community
»
The Flameboard
»
USS Liberty
» Post A Reply
Post A Reply
Login Name:
Password:
Message:
HTML is enabled.
UBB Code™ is enabled.
[QUOTE]Originally posted by Malnurtured Snay: [QB] [QUOTE]Second, how is the communications officer able to be sure that the Israeli pilots confirmed they were firing on a American ship? Wouldn't they be speaking Hebrew? Would he be able to translate Hebrew?[/QUOTE]Quoting from [URL=http://www.ussliberty.com,]www.ussliberty.com,[/URL] "Ennes acknowledges that no "official" Hebrew linguists were on board, but he points out that at least one of the doomed NSA men, Russian/Arabic linguist Allen Blue, understood Hebrew. As for the jamming, Ennes, quoting Chief Radioman Wayne Smith and an article in Proceedings, also notes that the ship could not have been misidentified, because the frequencies jammed were peculiar to the U.S. Navy. Liberty Radioman Richard "Rocky" Sturman also recalls that he and other technicians heard the radio jamming. Judge Cristol rejects such accounts as "myth." [QUOTE]Third, and this one is just an idea in my head, but couldn't the Israeli pilots have interpreted the raising of the American flag as an attempted deception by the "Egyptians" to trick the Israeli's into believing that they were attacking an ally? I don't know about you, but it'd be a trick I'd use to try to sneak past someone who is attacking me...[/QUOTE]The flag was already raised. The ship was displaying all her colors so that no one could misidentify her. After the attack began, a LARGER flag was raised in case the Israeli pilots were blind as well as stupid (as it turned out, they were just stabbing their ally in the back). [/QB][/QUOTE]
Instant Graemlins
Instant UBB Code™
What is UBB Code™?
Options
Disable Graemlins in this post.
*** Click here to review this topic. ***
© 1999-2024 Charles Capps
Powered by UBB.classic™ 6.7.3