[You Gotta Be Kidding Me]

Read Jame Ennes's book, "The Assault on the Liberty". HE was on the ship at the time. The investigators/spinners were not.

[yonif]

First of all answer my question I raised before. Second of all, no one is disputing that Israel attacked the USS Liberty. The fact is it was an accident. Were the sailors on the boat able to hear the radio conversations between the IAF pilots and base?

[yonif]

Here is a rebuff to one of his "facts":

• Many who claim that the attack must have been intentional argue that the Israeli jets and torpedo boats could not have missed the Liberty’s US flag, and therefore must have attacked knowing the ship was American. James Ennes, Jr., a Lieutenant on the Liberty, and one of the leading conspiracy proponents, makes this point repeatedly in his book Assault on the Liberty.

It is therefore quite ironic that Mr. Ennes, who was extensively interviewed by the History Channel, also argues in his book it would have been impossible for Cdr. McGonagle to recognize the flags and markings on the Israeli boats:

McGonagle must have been mistaken about sighting the Israeli flag at this point in the attack. For one thing, it would have been practically impossible to identify a tiny and wildly fluttering Star of David a mile away, particularly since any flags displayed by the torpedo boats would have streamed back, away from McGonagle and out of his line of sight. (Assault on the Liberty, p 149; )

Cdr. McGonagle, who had binoculars, obviously did not agree.

So, Ennis claims, the Israelis must have seen the US flag, but it was impossible that at exactly the same time the Americans could have seen the Israeli flag.

http://world.std.com/~camera/docs/alert/hchannel.html

[adam_az]

It would be nice if Ennes could keep his story straight over time, never mind that many of the eyewitness accounts conflict with each other.

Also, Ennes had no way of knowing while he was on the ship what was in the IDF's collective mind during the attack, which all the evidence shows to be that they thought it was an Egyptian ship.