On 18 Apr 2005 20:40:56 -0700, Mike wrote:

As well as the NSA/USN brass who, when queried by the Israelis,
adamantly denied that the Liberty was a U S Naval vessel even after
being told that the vessel wiil be blown out of the water if it
wasn't a US Naval vessel.

Not even the Israelis (meaning the ACTUAL Israeli gov't) has ever made
such a claim.

The Israelis had every reason to believe
that the Egyptians or their mentors, the Soviets, would fly the US
flag to avoid destruction if they could get away with it.

Not even the Israelis (meaning the ACTUAL Israeli gov't) have ever made
such a claim at stated here.

And the NSA kept denying...

And the GOI has never made the above claim ...

Of course not, governments never reveal such stuff, but every
Israeli in "the business" (where I worked) knows that that was the
case.

I don't dishonor the memory of the sailors killed aboard the USS
Liberty. They didn't have to die. I dishonor their superiors who
never took responsibility for not preventing what happened.

--
73 de K2ASP - Phil Kane