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In article <EGGERTJ.92Aug26104554@bullwinkle.atc.ll.mit.edu> eggertj@atc.ll.mit.edu writes:
>In article <1992Aug26.130442.5282@linus.mitre.org> m23364@mwunix (James Meritt) writes:
>>   In article <EGGERTJ.92Aug23005934@moses.atc.ll.mit.edu> eggertj@atc.ll.mit.edu writes:
>>   }In article <1992Aug21.211113.630@bony1.bony.com> jake@bony1.bony.com (Jake Livni) writes:
>>   }>   The Israelis said that if it's not American, then perhaps it's
>>   }>   Russian, Egyptian or something else and we're gonna send it away.  
>>   }
>>   }Sounds like you don't agree with the official story.  The Israelis
>>   }officially didn't ever identify the ship as an American ship.
>>
>>   Huh?  Looks like Jake said that it wasn't identified either...
>
>Let's check Jake's posting to see what you may have overlooked:
>
>>   }> Israel found a ship that looked suspiciously like an American spy
>>   }> ship.  They asked the Yanks who, after checking into it, denied that
>>   }> it was American.  So the Israelis looked at it again and the Yanks
>>   }> continued to insist that all American ships had been pulled out of
>>   }> there.  The Israelis said that if it's not American, then perhaps it's
>>   }> Russian, Egyptian or something else and we're gonna send it away.  The
>>   }> Yanks said "Be my guest".
>
>It sounds like Jake said that the Israelis initially identified the
                                                      ^^^^^^^^^^
>USS Liberty as an American ship, an identification that was verified
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>by a second recon, but denied by the US.

Last week, I saw somebody who looked suspiciously like a guy who lived
down the hall from me in college.  I called out his name (that of my
classmate), but the guy didn't answer.  I looked at him again, called
out the name again, and he still didn't answer, even though he
obviously heard me.  Would you say that I "identified" the guy I saw
as my classmate?  I wouldn't, and I think eggertj is intentionally
misunderstanding Jake Livni's statement.

All I saw in Jake's posting is that the Israelis made a *tentative*
identification, one which was discarded when the US said it was wrong.

Seth		sethb@fid.morgan.com