[Sandwich]

Originally posted by vyper
That's all well and good, but machine gunning crew getting into lifeboats is not accidental.

Nor is it factual:

[q]from the Wikipedia article

Details in dispute
Israeli ships' actions after the torpedo hit: The American crew claims that after Liberty had been torpedoed, Israeli boats circled the ship firing machine guns at descended (unmanned) life rafts and sailors on board the ship. Israelis claim they recognized the ship as American immediately after it was hit and ceased fire. The former point of view was expressed by many of the crew members, while the latter one is reinforced by the statement the ship's captain gave to the Navy Court several days after the attack.
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Not that I'm saying that the whole FUBAR'ed situation was "OK" or anything like that, but let's not start claiming as fact things that aren't factual.

[karajorma]

I'd be interested in reading that statement. I wonder if he actually denied seeing that or simply didn't mention it.

[Corsair]

I didn't know a lot of the details about that attack... which proves to make very interesting reading. I'd always just heard that the Israelis mistook it for an Egyptian ship and had bombed it or something like that.