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From: ken@njitcccc.UUCP (Kenneth Ng)
Newsgroups: net.followup,net.politics
Subject: Re: Air raid on Libya
Message-ID: <129@njitcccc.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 13-May-86 01:51:00 EDT
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Posted: Tue May 13 01:51:00 1986
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Summary: Attack on U.S.S. Liberty

In article <2182@ism780c.UUCP>, marty@ism780c.UUCP writes:
> In article <11610@amdcad.UUCP> phil@amdcad.UUCP (Phil Ngai) writes:
> >In article <215@cad.UUCP> hijab@cad.UUCP (Raif Hijab) writes:
> >>I have referred before to the fact that Israel has a long history of
> >>terrorism. An example of such terrorism is referred to in Noam Chomsky's
> >>book, "The Fateful Triangle," (South End Press, Boston, 1983),
> >
> >I heard that Israel once attacked a US Navy Intelligence ship, killing
> >most of the crew. They were in the way and Israel didn't want them to
> >watch what Israeli forces were doing.
> >-- 
> The IDF did indeed attack the USS Liberty during the six day war.  An
> account of the attack is presented in ASSAULT ON THE LIBERTY; I believe the
> author's name is Ennis. He was on the bridge during the attack.
> 
The book "Puzzle Palace", which is about the National Security Agency,
gives a rather graphic account of what happened to the USS Liberty.
According to the book the Liberty was attacked by Phantoms, gunboats,
torpedoes, napalm, armor piercing shells, and helicopter gun ships.
The Israel's apparently planed to destroy the ship, not disable it.
According to the book it flew an American flag until the Israelies shot
it down on the third pass.

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