Originally posted by: dahunan
USS Liberty anyone?
Originally posted by: Carbonyl
Originally posted by: dahunan
USS Liberty anyone?
Mistakes happen. The Iraqis, when they were our friend 1988', hit a destroyer with two missles and we also did nothing at the time.
Originally posted by: dahunan
USS Liberty anyone?
Originally posted by: LocutusX
Was it ever conclusively proven that the USS Liberty incident was really just an "accident"?
That web site you've linked to doesn't seem to think so.
Originally posted by: Kenazo
Originally posted by: dahunan
USS Liberty anyone?
That was an interesting read. I think I would come to the conclusion, based purely on what is presented on that site that the Israeli pilots that were attacking knew it to be an American ship but that their commanders assumed it was the egyptians running up the US flag. I mean the Israeli's were at war, when a country is at war allies are occasionaly attacked. It was only a year ago or so when a couple of US fighters attacked a bunch of Canadians in Afghanistan after all.
Originally posted by: dahunan
Originally posted by: Kenazo
Originally posted by: dahunan
USS Liberty anyone?
That was an interesting read. I think I would come to the conclusion, based purely on what is presented on that site that the Israeli pilots that were attacking knew it to be an American ship but that their commanders assumed it was the egyptians running up the US flag. I mean the Israeli's were at war, when a country is at war allies are occasionaly attacked. It was only a year ago or so when a couple of US fighters attacked a bunch of Canadians in Afghanistan after all.
I do understand what you are proposing... but imagine USA 1967 and what color/race do you think the men were on the ship?
I haven't seen many Egyptians that could be mistaken for white skinned people.