Harry Pollard wrote: > You must excuse me. I must have missed your answers.
On 12-Jun, 19:22 +0200, I wrote: >> > The reports of the survivors offer little help as they >> > didn't know anything about why the attack was made. >> >> But they know that the US President ordered US forces to turn around. >> That says it all. >> >> >> > I can see no advantage to the Israelis in deliberately >> > attacking an American ship. >> >> This intelligence-gathering ship witnessed war crimes on the land >> (IDF executing Arabs POWs). The IDF tried to eliminate the witnesses. >> http://www.wrmea.com/backissues/0596/9605028.htm ("...US forces to turn around" refers to those who started coming to the rescue of the USS Liberty during the attack.) As for your other question: > If Johnson had ordered all American warships to take > station 100 miles away from the conflict, I wonder what the > Liberty was doing there. Why didn't she leave with all the > others? Your source answers this: "United States communication failures, whereby messages directing the ship not to approach within 100 miles were not received by the Liberty." ( http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/History/liberty.html 2nd para) HTH, Chris ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ SpamWall: Mail to this addy is deleted unread unless it contains the keyword "igve". _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list Futurework@fes.uwaterloo.ca http://fes.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
