As part of its inquiry into Israel's interception of a Gaza-bound flotilla last May, an Israeli blue-ribbon commission interviewed the commandos who clambered down from a helicopter above one of the vessels, where a heavily armed mob viciously attacked and injured them, some within an inch of their lives.  When the commandos finally opened fire in self-defense, nine Turkish attackers were left dead.Mainstream media have devoted extensive coverage to the dead Turks, but virtually none to the attacks on the Israeli commandos and to their extensive injuries.Here are some of the accounts given by the first commandos to reach the vessel.  None of their testimony, included in the commission's report, has appeared in either the New York Times or the Washington Post."Upon landing on the middle deck, a mob of dozens of people attacked me and basically lynched me," the first commando, who fast-roped down to the deck, told the commission.  "They were strangling me,...(Read Full Post)