Comments on: Israel and the Israeli Lobby – Shadow Government, Puppet Government or irrelevant conspiracy? http://bokomaru.wordpress.com/2007/12/27/israel-and-the-israeli-lobby-shadow-government-puppet-government-or-irrelevant-conspiracy/ All of the things I am about to tell you are shameless lies Thu, 24 Sep 2009 09:37:13 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Ken http://bokomaru.wordpress.com/2007/12/27/israel-and-the-israeli-lobby-shadow-government-puppet-government-or-irrelevant-conspiracy/#comment-12 Ken Thu, 27 Dec 2007 23:20:25 +0000 http://bokomaru.wordpress.com/2007/12/27/israel-and-the-israeli-lobby-shadow-government-puppet-government-or-irrelevant-conspiracy/#comment-12 Your first paragraph gives an extremely simplistic and misleading explanation for the attack. The GOI's explanation for the attack involved its air force initiating an attack an UNIDENTIFIED ship, in international waters. In other words, the GOI freely admits its pilots had no clue about the ship's nationality or its type; regardless, a decision was made to attack it anyway. Later, after the air attack, the IDF's navy arrived in the form of three motor torpedo boats (MTBs). By this time, the heavy damaged USS Liberty had been heading north for about 20 minutes, toward the open sea, at top speed. Nonetheless, the MTBs pursued the UNIDENTIFIED ship. According to the GOI, the MTB captains tried to identify the UNIDENTIFIED ship, as they prepared for a torpedo attack. The best guess was that the ship appeared like El Quseir, an old horse carrier about 60% the size of USS Liberty, but without USS Liberty's elaborate antennas, large central mast or a large dish antenna standing tall behind her large, four level superstructure. By this time, USS Liberty was about 25 nautical miles from the northern Sinai coast (nowhere near Israel or any war zone), yet the MTBs began shelling her relentlessly and launched five torpedoes -- one of which hit her starboard side and brought her to a halt. Not satisfied with this result, the MTBs continued their attack by closely approaching the ship and firing cannon shells directly at her starboard hull, in an attempt to breach the hull and flood the engine room. Additionally, the MTBs sprayed the decks of the ship with machine gun fire to impede efforts to extinguish fires aboard the ship. During all of this time, USS Liberty was flying the American flag on her high central mast, in plain sight for anybody within view of the ship to see. Mistaken identity my ass! According to the GOI's own account of the attack, and tons of testimonial and photograph evidence, it was not a case of mistaken identify. At the least, it was a case of a willful, reckless and wanton attack on an UNIDENTIFIED ship, in international waters. At the most, based on circumstantial evidence, it was an attack against a known target that didn't go as planned. Your first paragraph gives an extremely simplistic and misleading explanation for the attack.

The GOI’s explanation for the attack involved its air force initiating an attack an UNIDENTIFIED ship, in international waters. In other words, the GOI freely admits its pilots had no clue about the ship’s nationality or its type; regardless, a decision was made to attack it anyway.

Later, after the air attack, the IDF’s navy arrived in the form of three motor torpedo boats (MTBs). By this time, the heavy damaged USS Liberty had been heading north for about 20 minutes, toward the open sea, at top speed. Nonetheless, the MTBs pursued the UNIDENTIFIED ship. According to the GOI, the MTB captains tried to identify the UNIDENTIFIED ship, as they prepared for a torpedo attack. The best guess was that the ship appeared like El Quseir, an old horse carrier about 60% the size of USS Liberty, but without USS Liberty’s elaborate antennas, large central mast or a large dish antenna standing tall behind her large, four level superstructure.

By this time, USS Liberty was about 25 nautical miles from the northern Sinai coast (nowhere near Israel or any war zone), yet the MTBs began shelling her relentlessly and launched five torpedoes — one of which hit her starboard side and brought her to a halt. Not satisfied with this result, the MTBs continued their attack by closely approaching the ship and firing cannon shells directly at her starboard hull, in an attempt to breach the hull and flood the engine room. Additionally, the MTBs sprayed the decks of the ship with machine gun fire to impede efforts to extinguish fires aboard the ship. During all of this time, USS Liberty was flying the American flag on her high central mast, in plain sight for anybody within view of the ship to see.

Mistaken identity my ass! According to the GOI’s own account of the attack, and tons of testimonial and photograph evidence, it was not a case of mistaken identify. At the least, it was a case of a willful, reckless and wanton attack on an UNIDENTIFIED ship, in international waters. At the most, based on circumstantial evidence, it was an attack against a known target that didn’t go as planned.

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