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Post by Odysseus on Oct 8, 2023 20:19:00 GMT
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Post by william on Oct 8, 2023 23:45:57 GMT
I hope they aren't in danger from Israel. I remember an incident in international waters when Israel killed and wounded a bunch of our military and sank the USS Liberty in spite of their being our allies and knowing that they were attacking us.
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Post by Odysseus on Oct 8, 2023 23:55:24 GMT
#1: Israel didn't sink the USS Liberty #2: Israel did attack the ship, saying it mistook it for an Egyptian vessel #3: There are still some who aver that the attack was deliberate #4: Israel paid a lot of money to compensate the US Navy, as well as the families of those American sailors who perished in the attack.
And here's an excerpt from that link:
It should be noted that the USS Liberty was a "spy ship", so Israel's confusion over its exact identity seems to have some validity. There's more in the link.
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Post by Odysseus on Oct 9, 2023 17:30:39 GMT
Any comments?
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Post by Odysseus on Oct 10, 2023 3:56:59 GMT
From some internet reading just now, I see that the USS Gerald Ford came out of Norfolk, Virginia. It most recently (May 2023) was deployed to Croatia, so its transfer to help the Israelis wasn't that long of a trip. BTW, Croatia is just east of Italy, in the Mediterranean.
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Post by Odysseus on Oct 10, 2023 23:53:58 GMT
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