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Bryce Lockwood, Marine staff sergeant, Russian-language expert, recipient of the Silver Star for heroism, ordained Baptist minister, is shouting into the phone. "I'm angry! I'm seething with anger! Forty years, and I'm seething with anger!" Lockwood was aboard the USS Liberty, a super-secret spy ship on station in the eastern Mediterranean, when four Israeli fighter jets flew out of the afternoon sun to strafe and bomb the virtually defenseless vessel on June 8, 1967, the fourth day of what would become known as the Six-Day War.......... .....Their anger has been stoked by the declassification of government documents and the recollections...

Jun. 27, 2004 21:23 Report: Iraqis killed Italian for Israel ties By ASSOCIATED PRESS LONDON An Iraqi terrorist who says he participated in the April murder of an Italian hostage has recalled how the captive asked for his blindfold to be removed so he could look his killers in the eye, a British newspaper reported Sunday. "I filmed him as he was executed," the Arab fighter, who called himself Abu Yussuf was quoted as telling Sunday Times reporter Hala Jaber in an undisclosed location to the west of Baghdad. Fabrizio Quattrocchi, along with three other Italian security guards, was captured...