Explosives-laden drone damages ship's steering

[sabra]

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/738611.html

Explosives-laden drone damages ship's steering


An explosives-laden drone hit an Israel Navy warship off the coast of Beirut on Friday night, causing serious damage to its steering capability, Israel Defense Forces confirmed on Friday night.

more:

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1150886002003&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

Al-Jazeera reports IDF searching for 4 soldiers


Al-Jazeera television reported that the IDF was searching for four soldiers missing after their naval vessel off Lebanon's coast was hit by a Hizbullah rocket on Friday night.

Israeli officials would not immediately comment. Earlier, the IDF said the ship suffered only light damage and there were no casualties.

more:

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L1410572.htm

Israeli ship hit off Lebanon badly damaged-media

JERUSALEM, July 14 (Reuters) - An Israeli naval vessel was seriously damaged in an attack off the coast of Lebanon on Friday, the Israeli Haaretz news Website reported.

The army had earlier said an attack from the shore had caused only light damage to the ship.

more:

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1150886002216&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

Al-Jazeera: IDF commandos spotted on Lebanon coast

A Lebanese army guard posted in south Lebanon told his superiors he had spotted "figures" in the water on Friday night, Lebanese security officials said under conditions of anonymity, Al-Jazeera reported.

They said a search of that sector of the coast had given no results. It was not immediately clear if the incident was linked to an earlier attack on an IDF warship.

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[Tempest]

1. I can't say I feel sorry for Israel

Not after what they did to the USS Liberty.

[jseankil]

2. Recent U.S. investigation showed they were cleared. /nm

nm

[Howardx]

3. link?

anything?

[jseankil]

4. sure. Came out in july 2003

WASHINGTON - New documents released this week by
America's National Security Agency support
Israel's version of a long-festering controversy
between the two countries: Israel's sinking of an
American spy ship, the USS Liberty, off the coast
of Gaza during the 1967 Six-Day War.

Israel has always said it had no
idea the ship was American, but
conspiracy theorists and
anti-Israel propagandists still
claim Israel sank the ship in
the full knowledge that it was
American.

The documents, originally
defined as top secret, were

made public by Florida Judge Jay Cristol, who
has been investigating the Liberty incident for
years and published a book on the subject last
year. On Monday, the NSA gave him a transcript
of conversations held by two Israeli Air Force
helicopter pilots who were hovering over the
Liberty as it was sinking, and these tapes
confirm Israel's claim that the sinking of the
ship, which killed 34 American servicemen and
wounded 171, was a tragic error.

[Tempest]

6. No idea it was American?

Bullfuckingshit.

The ship was flying the American flag and had international designations painted on both sides.


Another U.S. government cover-up for a country they kow-tow to regardless of what they do to us.

[Howardx]

7. i thought you would post that

"Liberty survivors have said for 36 years that theirs is the only major maritime incident not investigated by Congress. Apologist Cristol’s response is to claim that no investigation is needed because the attack has been investigated repeatedly, and that each such investigation has exonerated Israel. That claim is pure fantasy. A recent request to the Congressional Research Service for evidence of any congressional inquiry into the attack on the USS Liberty brought a report that Congress has never investigated the attack. Israeli culpability for the attack on the USS Liberty has never been investigated by any agency of the United States government. It should be."

http://www.wrmea.com/archives/December_2003/0312014.html



http://www.ussliberty.org/
the survivors dont seem to share your view that its all wrapped up

[Tempest]

8. Good job, Howard

Let's see what lame excuse he comes up with next.

[DoYouEverWonder]

12. The crash at Gander

was never investigated either. Over 256 troops & flight crew were killed in that one returning from duty in the ME.

[Blue State Bandit]

9. The Liberty was not sunk. It was left to sink, but was retro-fitted and

painted in a Mediterranean port (I think Greek or Italian) before returning to the US where it was soon de-commissioned.

I think that this single fact blows this particular bit of mis-information out of the water, so to speak.

Photos at http://www.ussliberty.org/00/0031.htm

[anotherdrew]

16. it was shot at for hours! it didn't sink because they couldn't sink it

not for lack of trying.

why did the president ORDER that the ship be undefened and left alone under attack?

FOLKS, RESEARCH THIS FOR YOURSELVES

why do we GIVE billions of dollars a year to a country thats stabed us in the back and used us like fools every chance they've had?

[dysfunctional press]

13. i wonder if those tapes were made in the same place as bin laden's...?

poppy smirk's langley farmhouse studios.

[lumpy]

14. NSA documents released in 2003

Isn't it strange that they would release such documents under Bush's NSA? Why in July 2003? Anyone who reads the eyewitness accounts would draw the conclusion that the attack was deliberate. How transpaent of Bushco.

[IndianaGreen]

15. The crew of the USS Liberty would disagree with this whitewash

A relationship based on duplicity and co-dependency is not worth having!

[Tempest]

5. Would that be an investigation headed by one of the neo-cons?

Or an AIPAC lobbyist?

I'll take the word of the men on the Liberty and the documents released from FOIA requests over any government investigation.

It was the government who assisted in the original cover-up of the attack.

[Tarc]

10. Bull

The USS Liberty incident has never, ever received a full investigation.

[Posteritatis]

11. Mmmm, perpetual guilt. (n/t)