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Originally Posted by PeriscopeDepth
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Originally Posted by Lurchi
The ship was well known before and the only reason for the attack i can imagine is that they didn't want the U.S. to gain information about their tactics ...
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Then they probably shouldn't be training together all the time and sharing intelligence, either.
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My own teke on it was at the time....the Americans were under pressure from around the world to reign the Israelis in...but the Israelis had the upper hand in the fighting and needed to buy time to achieve their military objectives...it was not in their interests to let the Americans know how well things were going