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In <1992Aug14.150800.5879@cs.brown.edu> Danny Keren states:

|#Remind me, is this the same Israeli AF that executed the infamous
|#attack against the slow-moving, non-stealthy, and ill-defended USS
|#Liberty?  A ship the Israelis couldn't identify after hours of recon,
|#and didn't after three attack waves?  Or so goes the official story...
|#
|#Seems to me that either the Israelis aren't so hot at identifying and
|#killing targets after all, or that the Liberty story as told in public
|#is wrong.  Take your choice.

|Mistakes happen in war, even to the best and most expereinced air-forces.

Hmm, interestingly enough, I happened across a letter written by a 
member of the USS Liberty Veterans Association several years ago [NOT
James Ennes] to a magazine. He makes it clear that ECM pods carried 
onboard Mirage IIIs (I believe that's the designation of the Israeli 
Mirages.) were set for U.S. Navy communications frequencies, AND WERE 
NOT WIDEBAND JAMMING.

This clearly indicates Israeli knowledge of the USS Liberty as an
American vessel and not of any combatant.