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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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Anyone who threatens their plans gets taken out. Terry Yeakey was a policeman in Oklahoma City when the Murrah building was attacked. He figured out right away that something was so very wrong--he found unexploded ordnance inside. He tried to do the right thing by us and was murdered.
http://www.riflewarrior.com/who_killed_terry_yeakey.htm
Don't forget JD Cash and Mr Trentadue.
finally, somebody else that seems to understand the OKC bombing
The suspicions started growing early on among the firefighters, police, and administrators on the scene but OKC took place in the 90's when the internet was not as omnipotent as it is now. One administrator was identified and recalled as fighting outside the buiding with officials because he had complained loudly in the days and weeks before about movements he didn't like. He was later counted among the dead.
Unresolved OKC deaths
http://www.rense.com/general11/unresolved.htm
I remember hearing about this in '67. There was just a little bit of outrage. Doesnt' sound like it was covered up. Sounds more like everyday ordinary Americans just didn't give a fuck, starting with the criminals inhabiting the Beltway (LBJ was a dem, right?).
Impossible that the American public is such a herd of fuckwads? Then explain Benghazi. Explain a weaponized IRS. Explain Fast and Furious. Explain a schlock commie dope smoking piece of shit from Kenya elected president. Explain TSA sticking their hands in your panties at the airport while any wetback can wade across the Rio Grande and sign up for immediate tax refunds. Explain to me cowards and morons who call themselves Americans.
I'd buy the NSA / Mossad conspiracy to rope the US into the war with Egypt. Americans wouldn't give a fuck if that were proven true, either. So, yes, the American gov't would not care about the murder of US servicemen. That's their position each and every time.
Yeah, in an all too real way, this is very, very old news.
Myself, I'm not happy about how 'Murikens murder millions of other people with little to no public concern, either.
Or how the USS criminal oligarchy is bleeding the entire planet dry.
Including our own people, of course.
What would the US Government do? Ask its owners.
And this just a few years after the Mossad killed JFK for not wanting Bengurion to have nukes.
USS Liberty, Lavon Affair, 911 -- anyone can discover the truth about these events but not a single person in the media or entertainment will discuss. Journalism is such a shameful profession because of this.
An interesting angle on the USS Liberty is the story of the library that was named to honor the fallen soldiers. When the small town decided to name it that way, a dispute was manufactured which basically called all the simple people in that town nazis and put the issue in the spotlight. There was even a jewish guy who drove into town wearning nazi clothing and holding nazi signs, knocking on doors acting like a lunatic passing out nazi letters praising the library, all as an act of deception and he was caught red handed.
The level of deception among this population of israeli supporter nutjobs is very unsettling. How did they ever get the reputation? Read the story about the USS Liberty library. Here's a start:
http://www.ussliberty.org/washrp88.txt
Substitute "US government" for "Zionist" and think about it.
Anyone who joins any military should know going in that they are consumable and disposable, otherwise they are morons.
Income tax payers and savers are ALSO consumable and disposable. Only illegal invaders (future democrat party voters) and entitlement program tit-suckers are treated with respect and protected.
GI=Government Issue
Just like toilet paper!
There is absolutely no reason to visit Disneyland -- we live in it.
After 9/11, went back and looked at most major events since JFK (JFK, Vietnam, USS Liberty, MLK, RFK, War on Drugs, Iran/Contra, '93 Trade Ctr bombing, OKC, 9/11, etc.) and in each and every case there exists strong evidence suggesting (or outright proving) an uncomfortable, alternative narrative. The media serves its owners -- the powerful private interests that run this country and have for a very long time. Disagree with MSM and "government" (scare quotes as it's primarily privately controlled) narratives and they label you a "conspiracy theorist", a "kook" or a "nut". We live in a propaganda network that is second to none and which trucks in big, self serving lies. People generally have no idea how thoroughly they've been conned... and it continues.
Ignacius, one more that doesn't seem to get mentioned, but it got us into WWI.
http://lovkap.blogspot.com/2012/03/churchill-and-j-p-morgan-sunk-lusitan...
"it was an NSA spy ship"
In 1967 the NSA did not work for Israel as it does today. It has been coopted during the past 40 years.
The Mission Statement has changed. American servicemen lost their lives in order to provide a False Flag excuse to drag America into an Israeli conflict.
What horrifies me is the fact that the truths about Israel have zero chance of getting a serious discussion going in the msm. There are a whole bunch of unpleasant nations on the planet, but Israel is uniquely evil and powerful in the way it has used anti-semetism and victimhood to control the narrative, wage wars, conduct false flags, incite hatred (Among its enemies which appears to be everyone else on the planet), lie, steal and murder its way to the present day.
I've heard some (anti-Israel) jewish folks blame the bible thumping christian zionists in the US for encouraging and supporting Israel, but the sad fact is, I think this offshoot of judaism called zionism is inherently designed for psychopathic behaviour. A delusional state of elitist exceptionalism to justify criminal acts on the non-"chosen", which is characteristic of people who have deep inferiority issues.
Ukraine is a microcosm of the way things are in the world, with Israeli oligachs in control of that blighted state waging constant war among themselves, forcing its citizens to hate and become cannon fodder with total media control, moulding the narrative towards war between the last remaining super powers oblivious to the dangers of WWIII, while at the same time stealing everything in sight - from the billions of dollars in unfulfilled agro contracts to its gold reserves. Look at how they operate in Ukraine and you can see how they operate in the rest of the world.
There are 6 major news corps. Zionists own ALL of them here in 'muricah.
At one time I was a proud member of what Hillary called a "vast right wing conspiracy". There are fairly popular right wing aggregate type websites still around today that Hillary was speaking to back when she said that.
If I took GW's article and posted it to one of these sites (I established an account probably 15 years ago on one of them) with a link and excerpt it would be instantly bashed as racism and most likely pulled down within 10 minutes. So it's not just MSM that does this. This very same group was very quick to stereotype the guy that got choked for selling loosies and the other guy that robbed the store and got shot.
I think the entire concept of "political correctness" stems from this and it happens right here on ZH too. It really is amazing.
Yep , just a different flavor ka ka ?
A few years ago on a wordpress blog I had, one of the survivors of the USS Liberty contacted me on a post I wrote about that fateful day.
He was angry about what happened that day and the coverup that followed.
I knew he was genuine as he was relatively easy to search and I read his correspondance.
In my opinion he was justified in his reponse and Israel and the US Government has to atone for this blatant travesty.
You are right, zionism and ISIS are not much different in the respect they are psycopathic organizations.
I would you but, it seems clear to me that ISIS is not psychopathic, they are a terror organization supported by TPTB and are doing their job quite efectively. Why havent they attacked Israel? Nuff said.
Was it Phil Tourney (DC3, USS LIBERTY) ?
The name sounds familiar, but it happened over four years ago when we communicated, I deleted the blog since and never kept a record.
I wouldn't bet my life on it he being it, although he did have a site dedicated to the USS Liberty
You are right, zionism and ISIS are not much different in the respect they are psycopathic organizations.
That is because they are run by the same people.
Small point to be corrected...Zionism is not religious in nature; it is political. By way of example, there are Christian Zionists, but obviously they are not Jews.
small point---politics is religion--faith, doctrine, rewards for "good" behaviour, higher powers, punishment, believers, the chosen few---all of those things are true about religion and politics-----your small point plays into the hands of TPTB.
oh and one other thing ---the myth---don't forget the myth.
Another small point: there is no "deep inferiority " with them...there is deep superiority. All they want is money and power.
I understand the clinical nature of SCP disorders, a state of delusion driven by myths and creation theories. That would fit very well with the zionists who have been in control of Israel in the top echelons of its society. But when I think about ordinary people who call themselves zionists or sympathisers of Israel, I wonder whether the root of their superiority complex is a deep rooted inferiority complex.
Imagine for a moment that you are highly intelligent, well above the gifted range in IQ. When you realize that you are surrounded by people who are much slower and irrational, there is no point in proving your superiority to anyone. You would most likely go out of your way to make sure you do no harm, physical or psychological, to others and would certainly try to blend in. Whereas those who are driven by the fear of their inadequacies and exposure to ridicule would constantly be trying to prove how superior they are by the destruction and subjugation of others.
So you have clinically insane people at the top of the zionist command chain with SCP disorders and the rest whose achievements in life have so little merit that they delude themselves as chosen by god to lie, steal and murder to prove themselves superior to others. Does that make sense?
Like pastor John Haggee, Cornerstone Baptist Mega Church, San Antonio.
Fat piece of work can't suck enough AIPAC dicks. The money must be goo.
Your fucking pen would run dry before you wrote all those pieces of shit's name down that work foor zionism while pretending to do good. Hopefully they pay and pay dearly for their acts
12 hours after Obama told Benjamin "Bibi" Netanyahu to go home the Libyan embassy was attacked no cover up there. And remember this Zionist Jews will ruin any country they live in and kill other Jews in the process as history shows.
Question: If all of the Jews are leaving Europe like they did before the second world war where are they going?
Theyre right here in the US. Didn't you know that over 50% of all jews in the world reside here in the US? The problem is they don't consider themselves as americans. This is just a place to stay a while and fuck over and steal from.
Just the current portion of history being viewed.
The long view of history shows that they will inhabit the geographical places where the most economic gain is available.
That has been the USA for some time. And tax rates are lower here than Europe (for those even honest enough to pay taxes)
So "Nomadic Tribe that wanders the world preying on economies" is an old label and an accurate label.
They are going to the store to buy up cans of spray paint :-)
http://www.dailystormer.com/france-police-catch-73-year-old-jew-spray-pa...
The God is going to attack America for this ditty.
DUCK!
Your kids will get their military service as "Extremists", whether they want it or not.
Someone must have shined his jack boots this morning.
I knew several people on the Liberty: fuck you.
Nothing that progressives do surprises me. You know what a progressive leader would say about it don't you?
"At this point, what difference does it make?"
Grimaldus
It's shit like this that makes me expressly not recommend military service for my kids. However, this isn't even the same country it was even 20 years ago, let alone 50. It's become progressively worse with each passing year. Perhaps thats all I should say with NDAA and the "Patriot" Act in effect.
There were mulit-generation Navy officers who resigned over this.
Oh, now you did it...
Only two things you need to know:
- Every word out of a Zionists mouth is a lie.
- What the Zionist wants, the Zionist takes.
You are quite right and the average American knows nothing about it:
Cost to American Taxpayer THREE TRILLION DOLLARS:
http://www.wrmea.org/wrmea-archives/251-washington-report-archives-2000-...
"Only two things you need to know: [1]- Every word out of a Zionists mouth is a lie. [2]- What the Zionist wants, the Zionist takes."
And #3: Zionists are nothing but parasites perched precariously atop the food chain that is their Goy victims.
The banksters need to repay us.
#4: The most feared word in Zion is "no."
Oh my goodness - most of what GW says here provably wrong or used to deliberately mislead.
For example, the close flybys. They happened, many hours before the attack. The Liberty was correctly identified by the Israeli aircraft, but it had moved a considerable distance over that time and was no longer being tracked.
The ship was later misidentified by radar track from a patrol boat which miscalculated it speed, but never had visual contact.
The fighters sent to investigate variously misidentified it as a destroyer a Egyptian navy support vessel.
Please see this link to recently declassified communications intercepts between Israeli helicopters sent to rescue men from the water and their ground controllers. It is clear they did not know it was a US vessel until they approached it. There were no commandos in those helicopters and no machine gunning of men in life rafts.
In addition, Liberty was mistakenly in an area declared by Israel to be basically a free fire zone. Liberty was warned by the US Navy to stay out of this area, but the messages were not received. The US Navy told Israel it would have no vessels in these areas so Israel made the assumption it was not a US vessel.
The initial air attack destroyed the mast flying the US flag and its radio antennas.
During the attack from a second group of aircraft, the group commander was suspicious because the vessel under attack was not returning fire. After his strafing run, he tried to take close notice of the vessel and say its hull number. He did not recognize it as belonging to a US vessel, but thought it was certainly not Egyptian or Arab and reported the vessel my not be an enemy.
Because of this, the torpedo boats were approaching the Liberty to make a positive identification, not to attack. But the understandably rattled crew of the Liberty fired at the torpedo boats with .50 cal machine guns, striking one of the boats with machine gun fire. The commander of the Liberty did not order this gun fire, which was undertaken by some crew members independently of orders. At that point, the Israeli commander of the torpedo boats assumed the ship was hostile and attacked.
The torpedo boats continued to attack with machine guns (denied by Israel) until they found an empty life raft in the water with US Navy markings, at which time they broke off the attack. It is likely from my reading of events the Liberty and the torpedo boats were exchanging fire after the torpedo attack.
Later, Israeli helicopters were sent to pick up any men from the ship who may be in the water. They clearly thought the ship was either Egyptian or American by that time, but were not sure. When one of the helicopters approached, he clearly saw the hull number and a US flag and reported it. Only then did it start to dawn of the Israelis that it was definitely a US vessel.
In reality, "friendly fire" incidents happen all the time. It is estimated that perhaps as much as 10% of casualties are the result of such incidents. On fact, the day before the Liberty attack, the Israeli Air Force attacked an Israeli Defense force armored column inflicting many casualties. This stuff happens all the time.
I thought Nazism died in a bunker in Berlin in 1945, but have found it alive and well here on Zerohedge. Those of you who honestly do not harbor crazed bigotry toward Jews should take time to educate themselves of facts and avoid the either deranged or deliberately misleading rantings common on Zerohedge.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Liberty_incident
one version of events stated that so many Egyptions had surrendered to Israeli forces, that they were being kept in a large refugee camp, and Israel did not want to deal with them, so bombed the refugee camp to be rid of them... The Liberty was close enough to have heard the chatter from the attack on the refugee camp, which being a war crime, could not be allowed to be overheard.
Wow, spoken like someone who was there!
Friendly fire... good one.
Judaism has nothing to do with Zionism, btw. Same with Islam and these nitwit scapegoats we keep seeing on the MSM beheading and torching people. It's not about religion, it's about scapegoating religion to get everyone roused up.
Use your brain and don't be a tool.
Please change your post ID
It is an insult to Eric Idle
I sawed it in wikipedia...