Re: KAL007 Coldwar Mystery

On Sun, 05 Feb 2006 21:50:09 GMT, Fred J. McCall <fmccall@earthlink.net> wrote:

>Casper H.S. Dik <Casper.Dik@Sun.COM> wrote:
>
>:Fred J. McCall <fmccall@earthlink.net> writes:
>:
>:>The difference being, of course, that the Russians ID'd the thing,
>:>followed it for a while, and THEN shot it down, while in the case of
>:>Robocruiser they screwed up and thought it was something else.
>:
>:There's no proof there was mistaken identity in the case of the Vincennes;
>
>For some rather slipshod definition of "no proof". The Vincennes had
>identified that contact as an Iranian F-14.
>
>:certainly the other commanders in the Navy believed that the
>:commander of the Vincennes was "gung-ho" and went chasing after
>:gun boats with his billion dollar boat.
>
>Yep, but irrelevant.
>
>:All low tech ships
>:who tracked it at the time correctly identified it as an aeroplane
>:in a common air corridor following a normal take-off path.
>
>Yep. First screw up by Robocruiser.
>
>:When it was shot down, it was flying away from the Vincennes,
>:not towards it.
>
>Yep. Second screwup by Robocruiser, as they misread their displays
>and saw the contact as closing and diving rather than opening and
>climbing.
>
>:The Vincennes was three miles inside Iranian territorial waters
>:when it attacked the gun boats (so it was not shooting at them in self
>:defense, it was attacking them as agressor)
>
>Irrelevant, as is all the further detail that I snipped.
>
>Or is it your contention that 'gunboats' equate to 'airliner'?

What is not irrelevant is the cold blooded murder of innocent civilians
by the United States of America.
Received on Tue Feb 7 21:00:02 2006