After the Israeli torpedo boats had machineguned the Liberty's medical corpmen and stretcher bearers, I'd hardly be surprised. They likely would have figured that the Israelis were coming in to kill some more of their wounded.
Of course, your article is all speculation and innuendo, while the NSA released the actual intercepts.
Guess which is more credible?
I'll be far more impressed when ALL of the NSA intercepts, from the EC-141 ELINT aircraft overflight, plus the Frontlet 615 *Project Cyanide* data and periscope photographs and film taken from SS552, the USS Amberjack are released, to include the transmissions from the Israeli Super-Mystere fighter-bombers, The Frelon attack helicopter, the Nord-Atlas plane that buzzed the Liberty at mast-height level, and the Motor Torpedo Boats that torpedooed the ship, shot up the life rafts, and killed the as many of the survivors/witnesses of the initial attack as they could. But it seems the *Friends of Israel* don't want the footage of more than an hour of repeated attacks turning up on American TV....