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Politics : The Arab-Israeli Solution -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Kenneth V. McNutt who wrote (353)	4/22/2001 7:39:48 PM
From: c.horn	Respond to of 2279

Thanks Ken... I know I'm not alone.. My bosses wife just went shopping this week for vacation clothes for her family.. She told me she looked at every label this time.. Before she just looked at prices. She said she put dozens of items back on the racks. It may not be much.. But China is going to feel some pinch this summer.

To: Kenneth V. McNutt who wrote (353)	4/24/2001 10:32:56 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2279

OK.... I guess it's time to set the record straight... WILL YOU, CHINABUSTERS, BOYCOTT ISRAELI STUFF AS WELL?? Israel Hit Ship Knowingly, Author Argues James Risen New York Times Service Tuesday, April 24, 2001 WASHINGTON Israel's attack in 1967 on the intelligence ship Liberty, which killed 34 American sailors and wounded 171 others, was deliberate, according to a new book on the National Security Agency, disputing the longstanding Israeli claim that the attack was accidental. The book, "Body of Secrets," by James Bamford, provides a detailed recounting of the Israeli attack on the American eavesdropping ship. The Liberty, a slow, lightly armed navy ship that was working with the security agency to monitor the 1967 Arab-Israeli war, was attacked from both the air and sea by Israeli forces off the Sinai coast on June 8. While the Israeli government said the incident was an accident, it did pay modest reparations to the victims and their families. But Mr. Bamford writes that the Israeli explanation is a cover story for a deliberate attack intended to prevent the United States from eavesdropping on its military activities. The book also provides evidence from crew members of an American spy plane that overheard the attack. While Israeli planes and boats were attacking the Liberty, the American plane, a navy EC-121 intelligence-gathering aircraft, was far overhead, and recorded Israeli conversations, Mr. Bamford wrote. The crew heard Israeli pilots talking about seeing an American flag. The Israelis did not have any idea "that witnesses were present high above," Mr. Bamford writes in "Body of Secrets," which Doubleday is to publish Tuesday. The National Security Agency "has hidden the fact that one of its planes was overhead at the time of the incident, eavesdropping on what was going on below. The intercepts from that plane, which answer some of the key questions about the attack, are among NSA's deepest secrets," he wrote. The aircraft crew did not hear the Israelis mention the Liberty by name. "Although the attackers never gave a name or hull number, the ship was identified as flying an American flag," one air crew member recalled in an interview with Mr. Bamford. "We logically concluded that the ship was the USS Liberty." Surviving crew members of the Liberty also believed that the Israeli attack was deliberate, according to those interviewed in Mr. Bamford's book. "Despite the overwhelming evidence that Israel had attacked the ship and killed the American servicemen deliberately," Mr. Bamford wrote, "the Johnson administration and Congress covered up the entire incident." iht.com With allies like Israel, who needs enemies? LOL!