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To: chalu2 who wrote (5151)	9/28/2001 2:21:33 PM
From: Noneyet	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 23908

Great link Emile, thank you. For those of you that will call yourself Americans and defend israels attack on the United States Liberty, I suggest you read this carefully. In particular the second line about israels responses to CNN. Bamford's other named sources include a former top N.S.A. official who conducted a review of the attack and an Air Force major general. Israeli officials have not responded to CNN calls seeking comment. Bamford writes that National Security Agency intercepts of the Israeli pilots and sailors remain secret to this day, although his sources say the communications would clearly show the Israelis attacked the U.S. ship deliberately. As for motive, Bamford speculates in the book that the Israelis may not have wanted the United States to know that "at that same moment, a scant dozen or so miles away, Israeli soldiers were butchering civilians and bound prisoners by the hundreds, a fact that the entire Israeli army leadership knew about and condoned, according to the army's own historian." Survivors of the attack on the USS Liberty have long argued that the Israelis had to know they were attacking an American ship, since the ship was circled repeatedly at a low altitude by Israeli aircraft before the attack and the ship was flying U.S. flags. Bamford is an intelligence specialist and the author of a previous best-selling book about the NSA called "The Puzzle Palace."