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The U.S. Government Wouldn't Cover Up a Foreign Government's Murder of Our Military Men ... Would It?
On June 8, 1967, Israel attacked the American naval vessel USS Liberty in international waters, and tried to sink it.
After checking the Liberty out for 8 hours – and making 9 overflights with Israeli jets, within 200 feet … close enough for the pilots and the sunbathing Liberty sailors on deck to waive at each other.
Yet the Israelis attacked it with Mirage fighter jets, torpedoes and napalm. The USS Liberty suffered 70% casualties, with 34 killed and 174 wounded.
The Israeli attack spanned two hours … as long as the attack on Pearl Harbor. The air attack alone lasted approximately 25 minutes: consisting of more than 30 sorties by approximately 12 separate planes using napalm, cannon, and rockets which left 821 holes in the ship. The Israelis fired 30mm cannons and rockets into the boat.
Following the attack by fighter jets, three Israeli motor torpedo boats torpedoed the ship, causing a 40 x 40 foot wide hole in her hull, and machine-gunning firefighters and stretcher-bearers attempting to save their ship and crew. More than 3,000 machine-gun bullet holes were later counted on the Liberty’s hull.
After the attack was thought to have ended, three life rafts were lowered into the water to rescue the most seriously wounded. The Israeli torpedo boats returned and machine-gunned these life rafts at close range. This was followed by the approach of two large Israeli Army assault helicopters filled with armed commandos carrying what appeared to be explosive satchels (they departed after hovering over the ship for several minutes, making no attempt to communicate).
The Israelis clearly knew it was an American ship, tried to sink it, and tried to frame the Egyptians for the attack, as shown by the following evidence:
(1) The Liberty was flying a huge, brand new American flag. The flag was 5-by-8 feet. The weather conditions were ideal to ensure the flag’s easy observance and identification, because it was clear and sunny, with a wind-speed which make for a constant ripple in the flag. After the flag was shot up by the jets, the Liberty’s crew replaced it with a 7-by-13 foot American flag, which flew during the entire duration of the attack.
(2) The Liberty had a unique profile and didn’t look like any other boat, since it had more and bigger antennas – including large, high-tech dishes and giant towers – than any other boat in the world (it was an NSA spy ship).
(3) The Liberty was marked with uniquely American numbering and colors in front.
(4) The Israeli pilots shot out the Liberty’s communications equipment first, and specifically jammed the ship’s emergency radio signal … unique to American naval vessels in the 6th Fleet. The ships from other fleets and other nations used different frequencies, which the Israelis did not jam.
(5) The Israelis used unmarked fighter jets and unmarked torpedo boats during the attack.
(6) Recently-declassified radio transcripts between the Israeli attack forces and ground control show that – at least 3 times – an Israeli fighter jet pilot identified the craft as American, and asked whether ground control was sure he should attack. Ground control repeatedly said, yes, attack the vessel.
(7) The Israeli torpedo boats methodically destroyed all of the Liberty’s liferafts one by one (which is a war crime).
(8) The only reason the Israelis did not successfully sink the Liberty and kill all of its crewmen was that one sailor duck-taped together antennae – and took many bullet wounds in the process – which enabled an emergency SOS to get out from the Liberty to American 6th Fleet.
(9) The Israelis later claimed that they mistook the Liberty for an Egyptian vessel. But the Egyptian ship – the El Quseir – was an unarmed 1920s-era horse carrier out of service in Alexandria, four times smaller than the Liberty, which bore virtually no resemblance to the Liberty.
(10) President Lyndon Johnson believed the attack was intentional and he leaked his opinion to Newsweek.
Other high-level Americans agreed:
“I was never satisfied with the Israeli explanation…. Through diplomatic channels we refused to accept their explanations. I didn’t believe them then, and I don’t believe them to this day. The attack was outrageous.”
–U.S. Secretary of State Dean Rusk
“The evidence was clear. Both Adm. Kidd and I believed with certainty that this attack … was a deliberate effort to sink an American ship and murder its entire crew…. Not only did the Israelis attack the ship with napalm, gunfire, and missiles, Israeli torpedo boats machine-gunned three lifeboats that had been launched in an attempt by the crew to save the most seriously wounded — a war crime….”
–Affidavit of U.S. Navy Captain Ward Boston, the legal counsel for the official investigation into the Liberty attack
“There is compelling evidence that Israel’s attack was a deliberate attempt to destroy an American ship and kill her entire crew.”
–Admiral Thomas Moorer, Chief of Naval Operations and later Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, 14 January 2004
“Israeli authorities subsequently apologized for the incident, but few in Washington could believe that the ship had not been identified as an American naval vessel…. I have yet to understand why it was felt necessary to attack this ship or who ordered the attack.”
–C.I.A. Chief Richard Helms
“Yet the ultimate lesson of the Liberty attack had far more effect on policy in Israel than in America. Israel’s leaders concluded that nothing they might do would offend the Americans to the point of reprisal. If America’s leaders did not have the courage to punish Israel for the blatant murder of American citizens, it seemed clear that their American friends would let them get away with almost anything.”
–George Ball, U.S. Undersecretary of State at the time, The Passionate Attachment
(Sources: Congressional record and videos shown below.)
Admiral Thomas H. Moorer – former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff – chaired a non-governmental investigation into the attack on the USS Liberty in 2003. The committee – which included General of Marines Raymond G. Davis, Rear Admiral Merlin Staring, former Judge Advocate General of the Navy, and former U.S. ambassador to Saudi Arabia James E. Akins – held Israel to be culpable and suggested several theories for Israel’s possible motives, including the desire to blame Egypt and bring the U.S. into the Six Day War.
Indeed, President Lyndon Johnson dispatched nuclear-armed fighter jets to drop nuclear bombs on Cairo, Egypt. They were only recalled at the last minute, when Johnson realized that it was the Israelis – and not the Egyptians – who had fired on the Liberty.
An NSA report from 1981 found:
A persistent question relating to the Liberty incident is whether or not the Israeli forces which attacked the ship knew that it was American . . . not a few of the Liberty’s crewmen and [deleted but probably “NSA’s G Group”] staff are convinced that they did. Their belief derived from consideration of the long time the Israelis had the ship under surveillance prior to the attack, the visibility of the flag, and the intensity of the attack itself.
Speculation as to the Israeli motivation varied. Some believed that Israel expected that the complete destruction of the ship and killing of the personnel would lead the U.S. to blame the UAR [Egypt] for the incident and bring the U.S. into the war on the side of Israel . . . others felt that Israeli forces wanted the ship and men out of the way.
Scouring the Liberty records in the LBJ Library in Texas, Ennes [an officer on the bridge of the Liberty] stumbled upon a smoking gun – a one-page memo of the minutes of the 303 Committee [the U.S. National Security Council group that reviewed sensitive intelligence operations] held in advance of the war in April 1967. The Committee consisted of a handful of top level intelligence and government officials who examined black operations and devised plausible deniability for the executive branch in the event of public discovery of an attack. The memo relates to a clandestine joint US-Israeli effort to blame Egypt for the sinking of the Liberty.
We haven’t yet located a copy of the alleged memo, and so we’re not sure we believe this explosive claim. But – given that Israel (1) used unmarked jets and ships, (2) destroyed the Liberty’s communication equipment and then jammed the Liberty’s emergency distress channel, and (3) destroyed all liferafts – the logical inference is that Israel intended to frame Egypt for the attack, and didn’t want the Liberty’s crew to be able to tell the world what really happened.
The following must-watch documentaries from the BBC, Al Jazeera and an independent producer provide first-hand interviews with the crew of the USS Liberty which prove that this was a failed false flag attack:
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I agree with all you have said, I noticed with OWS whose demands were to end the FED, that what they did was from the right on FOX news they labeled it a communist movement and from the left they labeled them the opposite, they didnt even have to infiltrate the movement all they did was lie about it's aims on television and it worked great for them, it deflated the movement. I hope they do reinstate the draft, then when they are trying to take people against their will to fight overseas we will see some pushbasck. Come to think of it, it took years of protesting and nothing really changed in the sixties and seventies, it has gotten steadily worse.
Come to think of it, it took years of protesting and nothing really changed in the sixties and seventies, it has gotten steadily worse.
You are absolutely spot on. I'm a child of the idiot box and the damage it's done to the American mind. But I guess if you and I were able to break that cycle why can't others?
One thing that is in stark contrast to what I remember as a child growing up during the Soviet years was that there was always respect on our end for what they could do if it came to an exchange. My Dad was a Vietnam era vet that also served in the Med during the 60's and early 70's and he use to say the one place you never wanted to be as a pilot flying sorties was over the Black Sea or the Baltic! We may have disliked them for their capabilities which they had then and still have but there was always respect and we use to fear the idea of what a confrontation with escalation(s) boiled down too.
Now?...
We're not even talking in those terms. We've been at war for 14 years in the wake of 9/11 while Russia have been silent, watching us and rebuilding it's technology and capabilities while ours are in complete disarray and totally bankrupt!
This is why we better figure out a way to come to our senses soon or the most corrupt and incompetent people that run this Republic w for us who are complelely out of their minds will be allowed with our tacit approval to do something that is unthinkable. The overthrow of the Ukraine should have been unthinkable for us 12 months ago and it's testimony to how crazy we are as a collective Nation that we've allowed it to go further than I ever would have thought possible given the number of engagements in the Middle East and the morale of our war fighter which has been in the toilet for the last 8 years!
Not a religious man myself but I've been finding myself praying the rosary lately cause I believe that if we don't find a way to come together as a Nation to make the sacrifices I previously talked about we more than likely won't be around much longer! If you didn't read the Army manual in that read on the FEMA camps I supplied in my earlier comment, it explains in abundant detail what kind of emergencies those might be up to and including catastrophic war!!!
One of the many problems is Bush's AG is just as corrupt as the rest of them. When we reinstate and strengthen the Consititution the AG should be independent and voted in as another check/balance and the supreme court should number 300 popularly elected judges for a period of 4 years max.
When we reinstate and strengthen the Consititution the AG should be independent and voted in as another check/balance and the supreme court should number 300 popularly elected judges for a period of 4 years max.
When we "reinstate and strengthen" the Constitution???...
After 14 years of Martial Law MB just how do you propose we get it back if something that catastrophic with that amount of subversive "rot" protecting it is going to be fixed somehow by a rule of a "4 year" ceiling on service to the bench?!!!
When you're finished.. Please pass me that crack pipe!
That must be some really good shit!!!
All federal judges should be term limited. One term of 4 to 6 years, total/cumulative in any/all federal judicial positions. Life-time appointments of morally devolved elite oligarchs are not appropriate.
Well the Liberty didn't work out for the Zionist bastards but 911 sure did.
I think the Liberty, despite a somewhat failed plan in killing all the sailors, allowed the realization that the Israelis could succeed with such a snowjob. A coalition was born that subverted the truth and allowed such false flags to go under the radar. That was a big insight! It led the Israelis to plan more bigger false flags on the stupified and easily cowed Americans.
dupe
The administration would cover up the murder of USA troops .
What was that incident called when a US navy ship was attacked by Israeli Jets ? Was president Johnson in charge ? He did covered up the hienus crime of the Israeei criminals ?....... The USA government would definitely COVER UP ..... this is well documented . For how long the USA is going to be a slave of the International Zionist Crime Sindicate ? You need a good coup d'etat in the USA one of those your criminal alphabet agencies organize overseas but never in the USA . You need to put in Jail all members of AIPAC and all supporters of the Criminal state of Israel .... Your true enemy ...... When wil you wake up ?
"Operation Paperclip."
Lotta craziness that is the USA.
I thought John McCain's grandfather died of a heart attack literally the day the war ended. Always complaining about "Halsey out looking for another hurricane" and the like. (Indeed he and the entire fleet found two actually.)
At least we can say we didn't nuke Egypt.
NSA ship you say again?
Careful GW... your cellphone has ears and a GPS
So does my TV: A Very Slippery Slope: Yes, Your Samsung Smart TV Can Listen To Your Private Conversations
This kind of comment about "be careful" ? is exactly why we are in the perdicament we are in with our out of control government control freaks. Americans are afraid of their own shadows and have become fat, dumb, lazy, spoiled and cowardly ! Sorry to say but beyond obvious ! Some body else made a similar comment on the earlier pages and these shout at me , especially here at ZH which is supposed to be about fight club ? at least in thoughts, WTF ! what a bunch of fucking weenies ...................
eye dont see it.
ZH gets on board the piss on Bibii train with old news. Enemy of my enemy thingy, with Barack Hussein and Putin both trying to fuck with Israel for making them look bad or messing up their plans. Nice!
2,400 Year Old “Enemy of My Enemy Is My Friend” Myth Has Led to Insanely Stupid U.S. Foreign Policy
Ve ver all Jews vunce ..... RIP
The USS Liberty incident is a stain both for Israel and the United States. It indicates clearly the "end justifies the means" approach the governments take formany reasons, including power, fear, hate or simply because they can.
That stain will remain on the US - Israili relationship forever. I suspect there is much fear in the US and Israel that should the attackbe publicy acknowledged, the relationship between, Israel the US and International Jewery would be forever altered.
GW thanks for remembering the USS Liberty
......and stay away from nail guns...
The problem isn't about being Jewish or even Israeli, it is about being a Zionist and all that that entails. Beyond this, however, this thing is another of the hassles created by the British since they were in on the whole Exodus thing from the gitgo. It is not for naught that Baron Rothschild is an English peer and financial advisor to the British monarchy (of German extraction because they killed off all their native pretenders???!!!). Isn't it delightful that we have these special relationships with governments and ideologies that get us mired in their quagmires? With friends like these ....
Keep it up ISIS bloggers.
Since ISIS is a CIA creation, and since ISIS, along with Al Qaeda, have not once attacked Israel, I find it extremely difficult to believe that the bloggers whom are attacking the Government of Israel's policies and actions have anything to do with ISIS.
ISIS was created, funded, and armed, with NATO weapons to boot, to overthrow Assad in Syria, in Israel's National Interests. They also took down the Government of Libya and killed Ambassador Stevens in Benghazi.
The USA funneled weapons to ISIS through Turkey, via Libya, so that they would engage Assad loyalists in Syria.
Is your name George W. Bush? "If you are not for us then you are with the terrrrrists."
You are doing a great job of creating domestic opposition whom may resort to violent revolution to stop neocons as yourself.
I am teaching EVERYBODY how to make BOMBS and Poison Gas as small arms are useless against Armored Personnel Carriers and Body Armor...,.as a direct response to people like you.
Shock and awe, baby. Shock and awe.
Keep up your evil work.
Our "Brave Little Ally" Israel is:
http://www.ussliberty.org/index2.html
Also vital is reading James Ennes' book "Assault on the Liberty"
He was officer on the bridge when the attack started.
Ben Bernanke, Andrew Fastow, Maurice Greenberg, Alan Greenspan, Michael Milken, Marc Rich, Myron Scholes, George Soros, the list goes on and on...
Now the Banksters, well they got several TRILLION Taxpayer $$ and they've done well, speculating in Tel Aviv real estate for instance.
The governments of the world aren't reigning in these Rothschild bankers. Just the opposite is happening. We are watching the outright takeover of all world governments by the Zionist bankers and the consolidation of their power.
And as for the assassination of JFK in 1963:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/8546122/Michael-Collins-Piper-Final-Judgment
Ban Racists from Social Media, Anti-Semitism Report Says
BBC News, February 9, 2015
Cameron is part Jewish
So, LBJ blackmailed the Israelis into attacking the Liberty as part of a "false flag" operation so he could attack Egypt? This hypothesis seems to fit "the facts" as well as the others here.
No, the way it reads is that LBJ decided to cover/shield Israel, AFTER finding out what was happening. LBJ wanted to see the Liberty sunk with Zero survivors, no eye-witnesses ... if you ask Why LBJ would take this route, you would have to understand that Israel had the ability to put LBJ in the maximim jeopary with them knowing his connection to JFK's Assasination. If you read the Liberty's Captain's report, you can see where LBJ didn't know this attack was coming, and made his horrible, ruthless decision AFTER he got word of what was happening
BTW, it's quite remarkable to see how often we were drawn into War via False Flags involving Ships, Naval forces
They're busily at the same thing now with Ukraine. Cf. Senator Inhofe's photographic 'evidence'.
hmmm LBJ, look up Pacific architects & engineers, seems they got big contracts in viet nam and were owned by a sitting president's family..who woulda thunk?
Hillary Clinton attacked and sunk the entire sovereign nation of Libya, quite a bit larger than a US spy ship and yielding a butt ton MOAR death and destruction but you will never hear about it from GW.
Lots of bad apples out there and I wonder why you never hear about Arabs here. Talk about racists, sheesh man the fuckin Arabs OWN racism. Arabs are only the ones who taught slavery tot he Europeans for crying out loud. Arabs still practice slavery today. Wasn't "Zionists" that did that. Do your dilligence on fucking arabs and see if you don't puke in your mouth. Fucking disgusting people, like progressives.
Grimaldus
...and more than half of Israeli Jews come from Arab origins. One of Israel's biggest lies is that it is "western". In reality, the society, mentality, religion, and conduct in its Arab neighborhood is that of...Arabs.
why am I reminded of the USS Pueblo? we did nothing that is common news about it. in the end I do not know what Israel was thinking or what uss.gov was thinking, a gulf of tonkin play to bring USA into a mid east war? or what ever dark reason some can come up with, (passing out tin foil hats)..but the length of this attack ends the idea of a mistake, or perhaps the attempt to wipe out any evidence of a mistake.
If you go into the military, you put yourself at risk of being killed for idiot mistakes and the national good..I know first hand (op lon son circa 1971) thankfully I was lucky and made it back.
Good points overmed-dude. Damn--and what a blast from my past-- I lived across the street from Captain Bucher in Naval Base Guam quarters, 1972. He and his family were good people.
Grimaldus
The next false flag will be a nuke going off on US soil.... to frame Russia.
One thing is for certain...in the next global conflict Israel has ensured it will get a heavy shower of nukes from Russia, China etc... Israel will cease to exist, literally.
Educate yourself. Israel will never cease to exist.......Zionism, on the other hand, will cease to exist when the faux Hebrew/Khazarians/Babylonian/bankster joos are removed from the power of money creation, and their stinking corpses are dangling from every light pole in Manhattan and Washington, D.C., as well as all the political/money centers of Europe and Asia.
The fractional reserve bankster/broker wealth confiscation fraud must end!
Sherlock Says: Charlie Manson Doesn't Add Up, psy-ops?
http://winteractionables.com/?p=18421
“Every time we do something you tell me America will do this and will do that... I want to tell you something very clear: Don't worry about American pressure on Israel. We, the Jewish people, control America, and the Americans know it." --Ariel Sharon, October 3, 2001
"There is a huge gap between (Jews) and our enemies not just in ability but in morality, culture, sanctity of life, and conscience... it seems as if, at a distance of a few hundred meters away, there are people who do not belong to our continent, to our world, but actually belong to a different galaxy." --Chaim Weizmann, President of Israel, 1949-52
Well unfortunately for Weizmann, Sharon, and their like (such as this "falconflight" poster), the enemy of racial supremacists ultimately includes the whole remainder of humankind. Yes, we know Jews control America and dare not whisper a word about it lest we be ostracized and unplugged, but tyranny over 300 million sheep is hardly an achievement. What happens when you've enslaved the rest of humanity and banished our progeny to that "different galaxy"... you gonna get along with each other when there's no one left to hate?
Funny how you GeoWash Daisy-Chainers are otherwise always praying for the death of US Military personnel when it comes to the Russians, the Chinese, and the Muslims. Pigs stay with their sows for how long?
Eat pork & die you swine !
Huh?
Immature.
These two Jews saved more people's lives than all of the unChosen in history combined. They very likely saved the lives of at least hundreds of millions of people. What are the Mohammedans noted for?
Streptomycin was first isolated on October 19, 1943, by Albert Schatz, a graduate student, in the laboratory of Selman Abraham Waksman at Rutgers University in a research project funded by Merck and Co.[11][12]Dr. Waksman and his laboratory staff discovered several antibiotics, including actinomycin, clavacin, streptothricin, streptomycin, grisein, neomycin, fradicin, candicidin, and candidin. Of these, streptomycin and neomycin found extensive application in the treatment of numerous infectious diseases. Streptomycin was the first antibiotic that could be used to cTure the disease tuberculosis (TB).
Tuberculosis has been credited with killing 1 in 7 of all who ever lived.
This one Jew saved more souls than both of those guys - Jesus.
And now we have VRSA. Bang up job!
yeah but Israel (The "Chosenites") is the source for all the worlds Kiddyporn and sex trafficking-look how many lives theyve RUINED
Hey DN you got some numbers to back that shit up with? While your fabricating a response check who are the kings of porn searches besides SEC regulators here in the states.
Yeah, that's right, Islamic countries take the crown for porn consumption at the same time they take the crown for numbers of women executed for adultery. Go figure huh? The Izzy's can't hold a candle to the Arabs for perverse shit. Plenty of Imams out there preaching it is ok to have sex with children. Even Mohammed was a pedophile according to Islamic scholars.
Grimaldus
Pretty sure Mengele came up with some medical advances too. Your point?
I work and live with a lot of Jews and I have to say that none of them are like you. Thankfully. Most are warm, kind people with a good sense of humor and not nudniks like yourself.
"If it was an accident, it was the best planned accident I've ever heard of" - USS Liberty survivor
the israelis lost a sub in retaliation. The navy used to be the last bastion of kennedy style americans.
911 removed what from the navy?