Remembering USS Liberty: When Israel attacked America

[Roudy]

Alan Fisher

Richard Brooks still remembers when the alert came.

With klaxons sounding and people yelling, the tannoy system warned everyone "Standby to receive torpedo hit".

"I thought I’ll never get out of this mess alive. Weird things were running through your minds, because I’d chalked myself off."

He felt the torpedoes hit and the ship pitch to one side but realised he was still alive.

And then the priority became survival. As chief engineer, he could tell the engines were still working. “My machinery was still intact and I was still making headway. I yelled through the voice tube ‘Give me all the steam pressure you’ve got, let’s get the hell out of this area’".

Eventually his ship, The USS Liberty made its way to safer waters and managed to take stock of the sustained attack. Thirty-four were lying dead, more than 171 were injured.

The victims of the day Israel attacked America.

The Liberty had been sitting in international waters off the Sinai Peninsula. A spy ship, it had been gathering information as the 1967 Arab-Israeli Six-Day War raged on land.

'Mistaken identity'

During the course of the day, the ship had been buzzed by Israeli aircraft. But flying the American flag, there was no cause for panic, no need for alarm.

“People were sunbathing, enjoying the June sunshine,” said Brooks, who was more concerned with keeping the engines running. The demands of the job perhaps saved his life.

Israel insisted it was a case of mistaken identity. It alleged that pilots were exhausted having fought so hard over the previous days. The US naval vessel was thought to be an Egyptian warship.

And that’s why it was attacked with rockets and cannons and missiles and torpedoes.

But Brooks doesn’t buy the Israeli apology. Standing next to the graves of his shipmates in Arlington National Cemetery he tells me “It wasn’t a tragic accident, It was a deliberate attack. They knew who we were. They tried to sink us. They wanted us out to either bring the Americans into the war by blaming the Arabs or we picked up some information about their war plans”.

INVESTIGATION: The Day Israel Attacked America

Websites set up to discuss the Liberty back Brooks’ suggestion. Some claim the Israeli planes which attacked were unmarked, hoping they’d be mistaken for Arab fighter jets. Others speculate that it was known the radio signals from the Liberty could be hacked by the Russians. And worried the US had picked up sensitive information about plans for the Golan Heights, which the Russians would pass to their allies, the Egyptians, the Israelis tried to sink the spy ship.

Every year on June 8, the survivors gather to mark the attack - to read the names of the dead and to share stories and memories.

The numbers are less every year. This year there were just seven survivors in attendance. But the passion to find out exactly what happened remains undiminished. As they stand between the white grave stones, a light summer breeze taking the edge off the afternoon heat, the memorial service also includes a call for justice and for truth.

'We had a ship to sail'

Ernie Gallo is the president of the USS Liberty Survivors Group.

When you apologise, you apologise with the truth. Not with a lie. So it’s not an apology.

Ernie Gallo, USS Liberty Survivors Group

He remembers the attack and how everything seemed surprisingly calm. “We had to do what we could for our dead and wounded. We had a ship to sail. We had to get to safety”

He’s read the reports, the official inquiries and read the books about the incident. He’s even written his own.

I ask if he accepts the Israeli apology, and the explanation it was all a mistake created in the fog of war: “When you apologise, you apologise with the truth. Not with a lie. So it’s not an apology. Not as far as I’m concerned and our government is just as bad off for going along with it," he answered.

To get a job on the Liberty, sailors were to have an outstanding service record and were chosen for their honesty and moral character. “Someone is lying here,” says Gallo, “and it isn’t us”.

Even now he hopes there will be a full official inquiry into the events of June 8, 1967.

Robert Brooks and Ernie Gallo know it’s unlikely, but they still hope it might happen. They both say the families of the dead and the survivors deserve the truth, before they mark another anniversary.

Source: Al Jazeera Remembering USS Liberty When Israel attacked America - Al Jazeera English

That's only one side of the story.

Yes, it is the American side of the story. You support the Israeli side of the story.

No it's the bullshit side of the story.

Remember the USS Cole. Now that was a deliberate attack by your Islamic brethren.

 

[Roudy]

I'm just glad Al Jazeera were so concerned about it.

I always liked the Jazz era.

 

[Kondor3]

Aris, no matter how correct you are, , the anti-Semites will keep on braying about the Liberty. You and I both know that if we went out on the streets of America at this point in time, we would find that the American citizens are more concerned with the Muslim extremists and their beheading of human beings and what terrorist act they will pull next on America.

Sad but true.......Americans have been zio-brain washed to believe Israeli lies. .....

No, Sunni, most Americans just don't trust belief systems that say it's OK to make war on unbelievers.

That makes it all-the-easier to take sides with the Root System that spawned our own, rather than a more earthly and blood-prone and incompatible alien system like Islam.

 

[Octoldit]

The typo correction is as follows:

The USS Liberty helped over the door to America's destruction. For those who can just print up paper money the attack on the USS Liberty made it clear to the Israeli's that bribery at any level or agency of government is possible even to the point of the military allowing the killing American solders.

The USS Liberty helped OPEN the door to America's destruction. For those who can just print up paper money the attack on the USS Liberty made it clear to the Israeli's that bribery at any level or agency of government is possible even to the point of the military allowing the killing American solders.

 

[Kondor3]

...The USS Liberty helped OPEN the door to America's destruction. For those who can just print up paper money the attack on the USS Liberty made it clear to the Israeli's that bribery at any level or agency of government is possible even to the point of the military allowing the killing American solders.

How's that phony-baloney effort to drive a wedge between America and Israel goin' for ya so far, Achmed?

 

[Octoldit]

What is this... like... the 20th thread on the USS Liberty incident, in the past year?

And all of 'em started by Israel -haters... often Jew-haters as well...

And all of 'em mouthpieces and useful idiots for the Ummah... trying to drive a wedge between America and Israel.

Fortunately, they're as obvious as they are clumsy and they always provide excellent Drama Queen antics...

You must think Americans need to apologize for never forgetting about the anniversary of the attack on the USS Liberty. If it's 20 threads or 200 threads about what the Israeli's intentionally did that day why is this so disturbing to you? Your Anti-American attitude is clearly showing.

The Israeli's got caught red handed attempting to frame Egypt by killing all those Americans. The Israeli's fired on the USS liberty for many hours trying to sink the ship in a botched false flag operation. The Israeli's knew full well that they were firing on a American ship.

Maybe you believe us American goy ought to be overwhelmed with unconditional love for killing all those American Sailors and ruining the families who loved them. The arrogance shown by the Israeli's when it comes to the death anyone other than a Jew should be abhorrent to any civilized human being.

Let someone from the west bank fire a rocket that's little more than a souped up fire-cracker and see the type of savage response that comes from the Zionist. Yet Americans are suppose to wait decades for the type of justice that the Israeli's so eagerly give to those ill equipped to defend themselves.

No one on earth hates more than the Israeli and the record speaks for itself so don't try to play the over-played “blameless Jew” card. It takes a lot of hate to kill all those innocent Americans in an attempt to kill innocent Egyptians by tricking America into fighting wars that belong to the Israeli's.

For the moment it seems that your persistence has won due to the false-flag operation on 9-11 that has Americans spilling their blood fighting the Israeli's enemies in wars that belong to the Israeli's. America is being played by the Israeli's to such a shameful degree that this nation is now seen as being retarded.

The whole point being had justice been brought forth for the false-flag attack on the USS Liberty it's very possible that the attack on the Murrah federal building in Oklahoma, the attack on the twin towers and building 7, as well as all the wars against the enemies of the Zionist would not be taking place right now. That's just the tip of the iceberg, but everyone is suppose to be stupid enough to have such overwhelming love for the blameless Jew.

But you omit the many mistakes by the navy and even the crew of the USS Liberty that contributed to the tragic incident.
Israel was at war and had just been attacked. US Navy denied they had any ships in the area, twice
.

After seeing posts about the Liberty over 10,000 or more times, it is time to hang up this subject, especially since so much is going on in the Middle East at this time. American military men are not thinking about the Liberty but about what the Jihadis are doing to innocent people these days. It seems that Al Jazeera (Isn't that owned by the Qatar government?) wants to drive a wedge between the U.S. and Israel, and all the anti-Semites pick up that article. Maybe Al Jazeera figures this will take some of the heat off the fact that all those laborers are working under slave-like conditions in Qatar, workers that the anti-Semites care nothing about because they can't use it in their propaganda stints against Israel. The anti-Semites should visit some Naval installations and ask the sailors if they are thinking about the Liberty or are they thinking about how busy extremists are busy murdering all the time. I am willing to bet that if instead of the Israelis mistaking the Intelligence Ship, the South Koreans mistook an American Intelligent Ship and bombed it, we would not be seeing ten thousand plus posts about this incident. However, since it was the Israelis, a million posts about this wouldn't be enough for the anti-Semites.

Say, I wonder if one of the anti-Semites here can contact Al Jazzera and have them run a piece about the bombing of the Marine barracks in Lebanon in which so many American and French servicemen were killed. Maybe we can get 10,000 plus posts on this incident.

In many cases those with an enormous amount to hide try to push people to “move on”. You want Americans to “hang up this subject”, Why should America's “hang up this subject”? Have the Israeli's hung up on the pity the “blameless Jew” brainwash films, or the “reparations” for a holocaust that they go to great extremes not report on any verifiable details, or to truly investigate.

Brings back memories of Stalinist Russia for those in Europe to be arrested for even questioning whether the so-called Holocaust even really took place. If that's not bad enough right here in America those of duel Israeli citizenship are pushing for laws to basically calling it a hate crime to question the so-called holocaust. These are no doubt communist methods, and it's amazing how few people seem to recognize it. Which is a testimonial to the effectiveness of the billion dollar mind control industry, commonly known as the media.

Don't get angry because Israeli's can't control all the news reporting and an more independent media source reports on the story, and tells the story their way. For their is little doubt that if Zionist could have an monopoly on information they most certainly would. The manipulation of the mind is what television is all about these days, and the information feed to the masses of people are very destructive, dangerous. Enormous lies are broadcast all the time.

Truth is the only reality. The creation of a bogus reality by deception through the media and pass it off as truth is extremely destructive. It's the false flag operations that Zionist skillfully use to instigate serious wars. Much bloodshed are the result of those who manipulate the minds of people to sell, and try to justify wholesale murder and brutality by wars.


“Let's move on” is what former president George Bush said after 9-11, which is something that is very disturbing for leader and president at the time to tell the nation. “Let move on” does not answer the critical questions, and even more disturbing is that “just moving on” leaves the doors wide open for worst things to happen again.

The USS Liberty helped over the door to America's destruction. For those who can just print up paper money the attack on the USS Liberty made it clear to the Israeli's that bribery at any level or agency of government is possible even to the point of the military allowing the killing American solders.

The reality is that there is no group of people more Anti-America than those using Anti-Semite as a mind control trick to divert the conversation away from all the that Israeli's/Jews have done and continue to do take over this country with communism. Russia gets the blame for being the communist, the reality is that the Communist Jews took over Russia, murdered the last Czar and his family.

After the Jews Stole the entire country it became communist. It was not Russia that was Communist, it was the Jews that made Russia communist. Just open your eyes they are attempting to do the same thing in the United States and the world.

Get off your soapbox. You are not fooling anyone, but are just another two-bit anti-Semite. And if you think the Jews are trying to take over the world, I suggest you change psychiatrists.

The evidence speaks for itself loud and clear. It's the central banks that are placed in countries throughout the world, which are a large part of the delusional quest the Zionist have for taking over the world. After the theft of Russia they vowed to take over all of Europe. Germany was an major obstacle however, and at that time the communist Jews could not pull off the take over of Europe.

The countries of Europe had their own currency and the sovereignty that comes with it. The wicked quest of the Zionist in taking over Europe and the world has not ending, however the methods are more discreet, but the efforts continue. The Zionist international bankers boast that if they control the money, the laws of the land is meaningless to them and they in fact control the nation. The European union is a large step toward taking over control over European country's by tricking these nations into having a common currency. NATO has a very dark side unrevealed to most.

Libya, Syria, and Iran are part of the few country's of meaningful wealth to the bankers, that do not have a central bank. We've seen what they did to Libya, one of the wealthiest country's in Africa, now it's been reduced to poverty, instability, and war between the divided factions. Libya now has a central bank, just as Iraq now has the central Bank that they did not have before the invasion. An invasion based on the lies put forth by a false-flag Zionist attack in America.

Madness is far beyond the need of a psychiatrist. People suffering from madness don't know they need serious help, they don't know that they are insane. People suffering from madness appear to be normal functioning human beings, but this is far from the truth. One that is insane is mostly a danger to themselves, and sometimes others, but people suffering from madness are capable of brutally killing many millions of people and think nothing of it. Psychopaths and sociopaths are extremely dangerous people.

Blinded by their own beastly greed, vanity, and arrogance they have no respect for life, the sovereignty of other nations, or civilization based on civilized conduct. “By any means necessary” is a sub-human savage concept. They don't care if they poison all the water with fluoride etc, poison the food with pesticide etc, or poison the air with a mix of slow kill toxic substances. Maybe it will be more helpful to understand the big picture in terms of madness and insanity and you'll be better equipped to suggest who needs to change psychiatrists Doc.

 

[Hossfly]

You must think Americans need to apologize for never forgetting about the anniversary of the attack on the USS Liberty. If it's 20 threads or 200 threads about what the Israeli's intentionally did that day why is this so disturbing to you? Your Anti-American attitude is clearly showing.

The Israeli's got caught red handed attempting to frame Egypt by killing all those Americans. The Israeli's fired on the USS liberty for many hours trying to sink the ship in a botched false flag operation. The Israeli's knew full well that they were firing on a American ship.

Maybe you believe us American goy ought to be overwhelmed with unconditional love for killing all those American Sailors and ruining the families who loved them. The arrogance shown by the Israeli's when it comes to the death anyone other than a Jew should be abhorrent to any civilized human being.

Let someone from the west bank fire a rocket that's little more than a souped up fire-cracker and see the type of savage response that comes from the Zionist. Yet Americans are suppose to wait decades for the type of justice that the Israeli's so eagerly give to those ill equipped to defend themselves.

No one on earth hates more than the Israeli and the record speaks for itself so don't try to play the over-played “blameless Jew” card. It takes a lot of hate to kill all those innocent Americans in an attempt to kill innocent Egyptians by tricking America into fighting wars that belong to the Israeli's.

For the moment it seems that your persistence has won due to the false-flag operation on 9-11 that has Americans spilling their blood fighting the Israeli's enemies in wars that belong to the Israeli's. America is being played by the Israeli's to such a shameful degree that this nation is now seen as being retarded.

The whole point being had justice been brought forth for the false-flag attack on the USS Liberty it's very possible that the attack on the Murrah federal building in Oklahoma, the attack on the twin towers and building 7, as well as all the wars against the enemies of the Zionist would not be taking place right now. That's just the tip of the iceberg, but everyone is suppose to be stupid enough to have such overwhelming love for the blameless Jew.

But you omit the many mistakes by the navy and even the crew of the USS Liberty that contributed to the tragic incident.
Israel was at war and had just been attacked. US Navy denied they had any ships in the area, twice
.

After seeing posts about the Liberty over 10,000 or more times, it is time to hang up this subject, especially since so much is going on in the Middle East at this time. American military men are not thinking about the Liberty but about what the Jihadis are doing to innocent people these days. It seems that Al Jazeera (Isn't that owned by the Qatar government?) wants to drive a wedge between the U.S. and Israel, and all the anti-Semites pick up that article. Maybe Al Jazeera figures this will take some of the heat off the fact that all those laborers are working under slave-like conditions in Qatar, workers that the anti-Semites care nothing about because they can't use it in their propaganda stints against Israel. The anti-Semites should visit some Naval installations and ask the sailors if they are thinking about the Liberty or are they thinking about how busy extremists are busy murdering all the time. I am willing to bet that if instead of the Israelis mistaking the Intelligence Ship, the South Koreans mistook an American Intelligent Ship and bombed it, we would not be seeing ten thousand plus posts about this incident. However, since it was the Israelis, a million posts about this wouldn't be enough for the anti-Semites.

Say, I wonder if one of the anti-Semites here can contact Al Jazzera and have them run a piece about the bombing of the Marine barracks in Lebanon in which so many American and French servicemen were killed. Maybe we can get 10,000 plus posts on this incident.

In many cases those with an enormous amount to hide try to push people to “move on”. You want Americans to “hang up this subject”, Why should America's “hang up this subject”? Have the Israeli's hung up on the pity the “blameless Jew” brainwash films, or the “reparations” for a holocaust that they go to great extremes not report on any verifiable details, or to truly investigate.

Brings back memories of Stalinist Russia for those in Europe to be arrested for even questioning whether the so-called Holocaust even really took place. If that's not bad enough right here in America those of duel Israeli citizenship are pushing for laws to basically calling it a hate crime to question the so-called holocaust. These are no doubt communist methods, and it's amazing how few people seem to recognize it. Which is a testimonial to the effectiveness of the billion dollar mind control industry, commonly known as the media.

Don't get angry because Israeli's can't control all the news reporting and an more independent media source reports on the story, and tells the story their way. For their is little doubt that if Zionist could have an monopoly on information they most certainly would. The manipulation of the mind is what television is all about these days, and the information feed to the masses of people are very destructive, dangerous. Enormous lies are broadcast all the time.

Truth is the only reality. The creation of a bogus reality by deception through the media and pass it off as truth is extremely destructive. It's the false flag operations that Zionist skillfully use to instigate serious wars. Much bloodshed are the result of those who manipulate the minds of people to sell, and try to justify wholesale murder and brutality by wars.


“Let's move on” is what former president George Bush said after 9-11, which is something that is very disturbing for leader and president at the time to tell the nation. “Let move on” does not answer the critical questions, and even more disturbing is that “just moving on” leaves the doors wide open for worst things to happen again.

The USS Liberty helped over the door to America's destruction. For those who can just print up paper money the attack on the USS Liberty made it clear to the Israeli's that bribery at any level or agency of government is possible even to the point of the military allowing the killing American solders.

The reality is that there is no group of people more Anti-America than those using Anti-Semite as a mind control trick to divert the conversation away from all the that Israeli's/Jews have done and continue to do take over this country with communism. Russia gets the blame for being the communist, the reality is that the Communist Jews took over Russia, murdered the last Czar and his family.

After the Jews Stole the entire country it became communist. It was not Russia that was Communist, it was the Jews that made Russia communist. Just open your eyes they are attempting to do the same thing in the United States and the world.

Get off your soapbox. You are not fooling anyone, but are just another two-bit anti-Semite. And if you think the Jews are trying to take over the world, I suggest you change psychiatrists.

The evidence speaks for itself loud and clear. It's the central banks that are placed in countries throughout the world, which are a large part of the delusion Zionist vain hope of taking over the world. After the theft of Russia they vowed to take over all of Europe. Germany was an major obstacle however, and at that time the communist Jews could not pull off the take over of Europe.

The countries of Europe had their own currency and the sovereignty that comes with it. The wicked quest of the Zionist in taking over Europe and the world has not ending, however the methods are more discreet, but the efforts continue. The Zionist international bankers boast that if they control the money, the laws of the land is meaningless to them and they in fact control the nation. The European union is a large step toward taking over control over Europe country's by tricking these nations into having a common currency. NATO has a very dark side unrevealed to most.

Libya, Syria, and Iran are part of the few country's of meaningful wealth to the bankers, that do not have a central bank. We've seen what they did to Libya, one of the wealthiest country's in Africa, now it's been reduced to poverty, instability, and war between the divided factions. Libya now has a central bank, just as Iraq now has the central Bank that they did not have before the invasion. An invasion based on the lies put forth by a false-flag Zionist attack in America.

Madness is far beyond the need of a psychiatrists. People suffering from madness don't know they need serious help, they don't know that they are insane. People suffering from madness appear to be normal functioning human beings, but this is far from the truth. One that is insane is mostly a danger to themselves, and sometimes others, but people suffering from madness are capable of brutally killing many millions of people and think nothing of it. Psychopaths and sociopaths are extremely dangerous people.

Blinded by their own beastly greed, vanity, and arrogance that have no respect for life, the sovereignty of other nations, or civilization based on civilized conduct. “By any means necessary” is a sub-human savage concept. They don't care if they poison all the water with fluoride etc, poison the food with pesticide, poison the air with a mix of slow kill toxic substances. Maybe it will be more helpful to understand the big picture in terms of madness and insanity and you'll be better equipped to suggest who needs to change psychiatrists Doc.

You're mad, dad, and that's bad. It's sad that there are people in the world with your mindset.

 

[Kondor3]

The evidence speaks for itself loud and clear. It's the central banks that are placed in countries throughout the world, which are a large part of the delusion Zionist vain hope of taking over the world. After the theft of Russia they vowed to take over all of Europe. Germany was an major obstacle however, and at that time the communist Jews could not pull off the take over of Europe.

The countries of Europe had their own currency and the sovereignty that comes with it. The wicked quest of the Zionist in taking over Europe and the world has not ending, however the methods are more discreet, but the efforts continue. The Zionist international bankers boast that if they control the money, the laws of the land is meaningless to them and they in fact control the nation. The European union is a large step toward taking over control over Europe country's by tricking these nations into having a common currency. NATO has a very dark side unrevealed to most.

Libya, Syria, and Iran are part of the few country's of meaningful wealth to the bankers, that do not have a central bank. We've seen what they did to Libya, one of the wealthiest country's in Africa, now it's been reduced to poverty, instability, and war between the divided factions. Libya now has a central bank, just as Iraq now has the central Bank that they did not have before the invasion. An invasion based on the lies put forth by a false-flag Zionist attack in America.

Madness is far beyond the need of a psychiatrists. People suffering from madness don't know they need serious help, they don't know that they are insane. People suffering from madness appear to be normal functioning human beings, but this is far from the truth. One that is insane is mostly a danger to themselves, and sometimes others, but people suffering from madness are capable of brutally killing many millions of people and think nothing of it. Psychopaths and sociopaths are extremely dangerous people.

Blinded by their own beastly greed, vanity, and arrogance that have no respect for life, the sovereignty of other nations, or civilization based on civilized conduct. “By any means necessary” is a sub-human savage concept. They don't care if they poison all the water with fluoride etc, poison the food with pesticide, poison the air with a mix of slow kill toxic substances. Maybe it will be more helpful to understand the big picture in terms of madness and insanity and you'll be better equipped to suggest who needs to change psychiatrists Doc.

Hoooooooooooooo doggies...

More Worldwide Jooooo-ish Kornspiracy drivel...

Please report back to the nurse's station on your ward...

Nurse Rached has Evening Num-Nums allllllll ready for you...

There's a good fellow...

Have a restful evening...

 

[aris2chat]

You must think Americans need to apologize for never forgetting about the anniversary of the attack on the USS Liberty. If it's 20 threads or 200 threads about what the Israeli's intentionally did that day why is this so disturbing to you? Your Anti-American attitude is clearly showing.

The Israeli's got caught red handed attempting to frame Egypt by killing all those Americans. The Israeli's fired on the USS liberty for many hours trying to sink the ship in a botched false flag operation. The Israeli's knew full well that they were firing on a American ship.

Maybe you believe us American goy ought to be overwhelmed with unconditional love for killing all those American Sailors and ruining the families who loved them. The arrogance shown by the Israeli's when it comes to the death anyone other than a Jew should be abhorrent to any civilized human being.

Let someone from the west bank fire a rocket that's little more than a souped up fire-cracker and see the type of savage response that comes from the Zionist. Yet Americans are suppose to wait decades for the type of justice that the Israeli's so eagerly give to those ill equipped to defend themselves.

No one on earth hates more than the Israeli and the record speaks for itself so don't try to play the over-played “blameless Jew” card. It takes a lot of hate to kill all those innocent Americans in an attempt to kill innocent Egyptians by tricking America into fighting wars that belong to the Israeli's.

For the moment it seems that your persistence has won due to the false-flag operation on 9-11 that has Americans spilling their blood fighting the Israeli's enemies in wars that belong to the Israeli's. America is being played by the Israeli's to such a shameful degree that this nation is now seen as being retarded.

The whole point being had justice been brought forth for the false-flag attack on the USS Liberty it's very possible that the attack on the Murrah federal building in Oklahoma, the attack on the twin towers and building 7, as well as all the wars against the enemies of the Zionist would not be taking place right now. That's just the tip of the iceberg, but everyone is suppose to be stupid enough to have such overwhelming love for the blameless Jew.

But you omit the many mistakes by the navy and even the crew of the USS Liberty that contributed to the tragic incident.
Israel was at war and had just been attacked. US Navy denied they had any ships in the area, twice
.

After seeing posts about the Liberty over 10,000 or more times, it is time to hang up this subject, especially since so much is going on in the Middle East at this time. American military men are not thinking about the Liberty but about what the Jihadis are doing to innocent people these days. It seems that Al Jazeera (Isn't that owned by the Qatar government?) wants to drive a wedge between the U.S. and Israel, and all the anti-Semites pick up that article. Maybe Al Jazeera figures this will take some of the heat off the fact that all those laborers are working under slave-like conditions in Qatar, workers that the anti-Semites care nothing about because they can't use it in their propaganda stints against Israel. The anti-Semites should visit some Naval installations and ask the sailors if they are thinking about the Liberty or are they thinking about how busy extremists are busy murdering all the time. I am willing to bet that if instead of the Israelis mistaking the Intelligence Ship, the South Koreans mistook an American Intelligent Ship and bombed it, we would not be seeing ten thousand plus posts about this incident. However, since it was the Israelis, a million posts about this wouldn't be enough for the anti-Semites.

Say, I wonder if one of the anti-Semites here can contact Al Jazzera and have them run a piece about the bombing of the Marine barracks in Lebanon in which so many American and French servicemen were killed. Maybe we can get 10,000 plus posts on this incident.

In many cases those with an enormous amount to hide try to push people to “move on”. You want Americans to “hang up this subject”, Why should America's “hang up this subject”? Have the Israeli's hung up on the pity the “blameless Jew” brainwash films, or the “reparations” for a holocaust that they go to great extremes not report on any verifiable details, or to truly investigate.

Brings back memories of Stalinist Russia for those in Europe to be arrested for even questioning whether the so-called Holocaust even really took place. If that's not bad enough right here in America those of duel Israeli citizenship are pushing for laws to basically calling it a hate crime to question the so-called holocaust. These are no doubt communist methods, and it's amazing how few people seem to recognize it. Which is a testimonial to the effectiveness of the billion dollar mind control industry, commonly known as the media.

Don't get angry because Israeli's can't control all the news reporting and an more independent media source reports on the story, and tells the story their way. For their is little doubt that if Zionist could have an monopoly on information they most certainly would. The manipulation of the mind is what television is all about these days, and the information feed to the masses of people are very destructive, dangerous. Enormous lies are broadcast all the time.

Truth is the only reality. The creation of a bogus reality by deception through the media and pass it off as truth is extremely destructive. It's the false flag operations that Zionist skillfully use to instigate serious wars. Much bloodshed are the result of those who manipulate the minds of people to sell, and try to justify wholesale murder and brutality by wars.


“Let's move on” is what former president George Bush said after 9-11, which is something that is very disturbing for leader and president at the time to tell the nation. “Let move on” does not answer the critical questions, and even more disturbing is that “just moving on” leaves the doors wide open for worst things to happen again.

The USS Liberty helped over the door to America's destruction. For those who can just print up paper money the attack on the USS Liberty made it clear to the Israeli's that bribery at any level or agency of government is possible even to the point of the military allowing the killing American solders.

The reality is that there is no group of people more Anti-America than those using Anti-Semite as a mind control trick to divert the conversation away from all the that Israeli's/Jews have done and continue to do take over this country with communism. Russia gets the blame for being the communist, the reality is that the Communist Jews took over Russia, murdered the last Czar and his family.

After the Jews Stole the entire country it became communist. It was not Russia that was Communist, it was the Jews that made Russia communist. Just open your eyes they are attempting to do the same thing in the United States and the world.

Get off your soapbox. You are not fooling anyone, but are just another two-bit anti-Semite. And if you think the Jews are trying to take over the world, I suggest you change psychiatrists.

The evidence speaks for itself loud and clear. It's the central banks that are placed in countries throughout the world, which are a large part of the delusion Zionist vain hope of taking over the world. After the theft of Russia they vowed to take over all of Europe. Germany was an major obstacle however, and at that time the communist Jews could not pull off the take over of Europe.

The countries of Europe had their own currency and the sovereignty that comes with it. The wicked quest of the Zionist in taking over Europe and the world has not ending, however the methods are more discreet, but the efforts continue. The Zionist international bankers boast that if they control the money, the laws of the land is meaningless to them and they in fact control the nation. The European union is a large step toward taking over control over Europe country's by tricking these nations into having a common currency. NATO has a very dark side unrevealed to most.

Libya, Syria, and Iran are part of the few country's of meaningful wealth to the bankers, that do not have a central bank. We've seen what they did to Libya, one of the wealthiest country's in Africa, now it's been reduced to poverty, instability, and war between the divided factions. Libya now has a central bank, just as Iraq now has the central Bank that they did not have before the invasion. An invasion based on the lies put forth by a false-flag Zionist attack in America.

Madness is far beyond the need of a psychiatrists. People suffering from madness don't know they need serious help, they don't know that they are insane. People suffering from madness appear to be normal functioning human beings, but this is far from the truth. One that is insane is mostly a danger to themselves, and sometimes others, but people suffering from madness are capable of brutally killing many millions of people and think nothing of it. Psychopaths and sociopaths are extremely dangerous people.

Blinded by their own beastly greed, vanity, and arrogance that have no respect for life, the sovereignty of other nations, or civilization based on civilized conduct. “By any means necessary” is a sub-human savage concept. They don't care if they poison all the water with fluoride etc, poison the food with pesticide, poison the air with a mix of slow kill toxic substances. Maybe it will be more helpful to understand the big picture in terms of madness and insanity and you'll be better equipped to suggest who needs to change psychiatrists Doc.

>>Libya, Syria, and Iran are part of the few country's of meaningful wealth to the bankers, that do not have a central bank.<<

Speaking without engaging your brain. Don't you check facts before posting? Or is your personal prejudice making you constipated?

 

[CMike]

Not this shit again.

At least five US government investigations all ruled it was a mistake.

The Navy Inquest investigation, testimonies, and results, are all public and anyone can read them.

It was a mistake.

However, those filled for hatred for Jews will never admit the truth.

 

[CMike]

"

That's only one side of the story.

Yes, it is the American side of the story. You support the Israeli side of the story.

No, I support both sides of the story. It was a tragic incident that is best forgotten.

"best forgotten? Why?

No----you do not present the AMERICAN SIDE of the
story----you present the side of the injured parties.
In cases of personal injury----whether in the military or
in civilian life-----the INJURED PARTIES never describe
the incident as "accident" or "unintentional". No need
to forget it----it would be nice if islamo Nazis would stop
exploiting a tragic episode. Lots and Lots of Navy kids
have died since-----in incidents unrelated to war---some
on ships. It is clear that whatever was NOT done to
ensure the safety of a US ship floating around in an arena
of war------should be done in the future

link israeli firster?

You are an arab terrorist firster because your propaganda is designed to help arab terrorists.

 

[CMike]

If you want to help remember the victims, stop using the USS Liberty as a verbal howitzer to try and kill Israel or incite hate.

Searching for the "truth" about the USS Liberty incident isn't hate or anti-semitic.

Historian's endlessly try to uncover new facts about historical events.

So why should the case of the Liberty attack be any different? ......

The truth has already been searched by at least five government investigation whom all concluded it was an accident terrorist firster.

 

[CMike]

Why do you take the side of the Israelis instead of that of the American servicemen? That's right, because you are a fine example of an Israel Firster.

I take the side of the truth and the results of the investigations where there was testimony under oath.


FINDINGS OF FACT

1. Available evidence combines to indicate the attack on
LIBERTY on 8 June was in fact a case of mistaken
identity.

2. The calm conditions and slow ship speed may well have
made the American Flag difficult to identify.

3. The ship's westerly heading at the time of attack - in
the general direction of Egyptian ports may have
reinforced elements of doubt in the minds of the several
Israeli pilots who looked the ship over in the forenoon.

4. The colors were shot down early in the action and were
replaced prior to the PT attack.

5. The immediate confusion milling around astern followed
by peaceful

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overtures by the attacking surface forces after launching
only two torpedoes of the six presumed available (two on
each PT boat), indicate these craft may well have identified
the colors for the first time when they got in close enough
to see clearly through the smoke and flames billowing, at
times above the mast head.

6. There are no available indications that the attack was
intended against a U. S. Ship.

7. LIBERTY'S position at the time of the attack has been
previously ordered changed farther to seaward by JCS;
however, the messages relating to these changes were not
known to the ship before the attack took place. The reasons
these messages were not known to the ship can be determined
in all instances except for one. Since LIBERTY records and
knowledgeable personnel were lost in the action, it is
impossible to determine the disposition of the message.

8. The communication delays and mis-routing errors which
caused these several non-deliveries combined with delays in
initiating follow-up actions on operational instructions
received, all contributed to the ship itself being unaware
of plans and decisions made for her repositioning. A
detailed accounting of the five pertinent messages are
attached as appendices one through five.

9. The absence of any identifiable threat to the ship
apparently caused the foregoing referred to operational
actions to be taken and implemented in routine manner, i.e.,
without resorting to highest precedence (Flash) traffic.

10. USS LIBERTY was assigned technical research tasks to be
performed in the eastern Mediterranean by the Joint Chiefs
of Staff. LIBERTY first became aware of this new tasking
when she received sailing orders from Abidjan on the Ivory
Coast on the 24th day of May 1967. The precise tasking by
which LIBERTY was ordered to depart Abidjan is significant.
In this tasking language, LIBERTY was directed to proceed to
her new operating area in the eastern Mediterranean via Rota
for pick-up of specifics at "best speed."

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11. LIBERTY received her basic operational and mission
guidance from the JCS through her new operational chain in
JCS 011545Z. LIBERTY proceeded to comply.

12. The Commanding Officer, USS LIBERTY conducted the
operations of his ship in accordance with the intent of
directives received by him. The operating area of LIBERTY on
8 June was in accordance with the announce- ments of
intended movement promulgated by the Commanding Officer USS
LIBERTY. Such operating areas were normal to the
accomplishment of LIBERTY's mission. These announcements
were addressed to, and presumably received, by all seniors
in the chain of LIBERTY's operational command. LIBERTY
received no directive, prior to the attack, that higher
authority desired that the ship operate at least 100 miles
from the coastline of the UAR.

13. LIBERTY responded to her newly assigned mission by
departing Abidjan promptly within some four hours from the
time of receipt of her sailing orders. LIBERTY experienced
minor engineering difficulties enroute Rota which caused
her arrival there somewhat later than originally planned.
On departure Rota, LIBERTY filed her movement report and
declared therein her intention to make best speed in
compliance with the JCS detailed tasking assignments set
forth in JCS message dtg 011545Z June 1967. It is
significant to note that in this JCS tasking, two time
frames were identified, one covering the period between 1
June through 8 June, the second covering the period 9 June
to 30 June. During the first period (1 through 8 June),
LIBERTY's movements were prescribed by the JCS to cover her
transit along the north African littoral; and therein were
prescribed minimum closest points of approach allowed to
national maritime boundaries. The terminal point in this 1
through 8 June time frame was to be a navigational position
at latitude 32 North, longitude 33 East. The second time
frame addressed by the Joint Chiefs of Staff, assigned
LIBERTY an operating area bounded on the North by latitude
32 North, the north African/Israeli littoral on the south
and between longitudes 33 East and 34 East. It might well
occur to some that LIBERTY's attack occurred on 8 June,
which would have placed her considerably farther to the
North of the African coast, had she conformed explicitly
with the aforementioned JCS directive. However, as LIBERTY
proceeded eastward through the Mediterranean from Rota, she
filed three separate messages

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reports of position and intent which advised superiors of
her plans to anticipate arrival on station - that is, to
arrive somewhat earlier than prescribed by the Joint Chiefs
of Staff. Moreover, LIBERTY advised superiors of her
specific intentions to proceed to and operate in the closer
of the two areas to the north African coast - that is south
of latitude 32 north. Finally in this regard, LIBERTY
reported her arrival at her final destination to appropriate
addressees.

14. It is understood from representatives of the JCS Fact
Finding Group that it was receipt of LIBERTY's 7 June
SITREP/POSIT report which stated her final destination which
prompted concern in the JRC as to her proximity to the
African coast on the night of June 7th. This concern by
responsible authorities, who initially has tasked LIBERTY,
resulted in follow-on actions and directives to the ship
which were either never received or were transmitted on the
fleet broadcast from NAVCOMMSTA Asmara after the attack has
taken place.

15. Pertinent to the findings of fact is the matter of
communication conditions regarding USS LIBERTY during the
period of 1 and 8 June. The ship is known not to have
received at least five messages sent prior to the attack,
each of which was not only important but, in that respect,
critical to the events which terminated in the aggravated
attack on this ship on June the 8th.

16. Higher authority modified LIBERTY's original
operational guidance between June first and the attack on
the eighth, which, if she had received it, would have
resulted in her being further off shore.

17. Combination and compounding of many delayed
communication deliveries related to LIBERTY incident denied
the ship the benefit of command decisions actually made
prior to the attack which, among other things, would have
caused the ship, as a minimum, to be heading further
off-shore from her 081200Z actual position.

18. Pre-attack overflights of LIBERTY: (First air attack
occurred at 1403 local) Unidentified aircraft circled
LIBERTY at:

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0850 ( 5 hours 13 minutes prior to attack) (080742Z refers)
1056 ( 3 hours 7 minutes prior to attack) 1126 ( 2 hours 37
minutes prior to attack) 081022Z refers

Hull markings were clean and freshly painted - ensign was
flying from foremast halyard.

19. Aircraft attack on LIBERTY Attack initiated by single
aircraft, making a run similar to previous overflights.
First warning that this aircraft had attacked ship was a
rocket explosion abaft the bridge, port side. In five of
six attacks, from various angles, two or more jet aircraft
at a time conducted strafing, rocket and incendiary attacks.

20. Motor Torpedo Boat attack on LIBERTY. Twenty minutes
following air attack, MTB's closed ship to a position 2000
yards on starboard quarter and signaled ship by flashing
light. At this time ship had been making turns for FLANK
speed for 9 minutes (Estima- ted SOA 15-17 knots). Holiday
ensign was flying from the starboard yardarm for at least
five minutes before torpedo attack was launched. LIBERTY 50
cal. guns opened fire while the MTS was signaling. The
torpedo attack was launched shortly after the MTBs were
fired upon, and MTB's strafed the ship with machine gun fire
as, at least, one MTB passed down the starboard side.

24. Offers of assistance. Post air attack signaling by MTB's
(before torpedo attack), may have been an offer of
assistance.

Thirty minutes after attacking LIBERTY the MTBs signaled in
English, "Do you need help?"

Two hours and 10 minutes after torpedo attack (2 hours 40
minutes after air attack) an Israeli helo apparently offered
assistance.

Israeli defense forces reported they conducted air and
surface searches for survivors at the scene of the attack
responding to a U. S. request.

22. Groups of up to two and three jet and propeller
aircraft begin coming

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out from shore and circling ship at altitudes ranging from
500 up to several thousand feet at about eight hundred local
on day of attack. Planes in question were otherwise active
over El Arish on Sinai north coast which was plainly visible
from the ship some sixteen miles off shore.

Ship's navigation was sound and practical, using bearings on
minaret in El Arish and radar range to beach at that point.

23. The ship had exercises at full G. Q. and secured only a
short time prior to the unprovoked attack. After securing
from G. Q., the Commanding Officer had admonished all hands
over the PA system that large billowing clouds of black
smoke ashore were evidence of intense military activity,
therefore, crew should be "heads up ball players" as long as
she was in that close.

24. From the time of first air attack onward, attackers
were well coord- inated, accurate and determined.
Criss-crossing rocket and machine gun runs from both bows,
both beams, and quarters effectively chewed up entire
topside including ship control and internal communications
(sound powered) network. Well directed initial air attacks
had wiped out the ability of the four 50 cal. machine guns
to be effective.

25. PT attack first developed from starboard side and was
identified as a high speed run in. Center and lead PT began
flashing signal light and very shortly thereafter the
Commanding Officer identified the Star of David flag on this
lead boat. LIBERTY's signal light had been shot away
requiring dependence upon an Aldis lamp to try and penetrate
the smoke on the bearing of the PTs.

26. The Commanding Officer had passed word to stand by for
torpedo attack and the forward starboard 50 cal. fired a
very short burst in the direction of the boats on the
gunner's own initiative. Having seen Israeli flag on the
PT, the Commanding Officer waved to the forward gunner to
cease firing. The after starboard gun, opened up at this
point, with apparently no one pulling the trigger. The
bridge could not see this gun for smoke and flame on the
starboard side, so the Commanding Officer sent a runner to
tell him cease fire. Before this runner could reach the
after starboard

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gun, effective high volume fire from this gun was peppering
the water around the middle PT. It appears as though 50
Cal. ammunition was cooking off from intense fire. The gun
was seen to be firing with no one manning it.

27. The reaction of all three PTs immediately after launch,
when they stopped and milled around close aboard LIBERTY and
then offered help by signal light, combine to indicate this
was the first time the U. S. large colors flying were
actually positively identified. Not having signal lights
available, the Commanding Officer then made the
international flaghoist meaning, "Not Under Command."

28. Flat, calm conditions and the slow five knot patrol
speed of LIBERTY in forenoon when she was being looked over
initially may well have produced insufficient wind for
steaming colors enough to be seen by pilots.

29. USS LIBERTY had installed communications equipment
whose reliability and degree of sophistication produced a
feeling of maximum confidence in operators, the
Communications Officer, and the Commanding Officer
regarding the reliability of reception on fleet broadcast
which minimized the number of missed numbers.

30. In amplification of the proceeding statement, the
superior communi- cation capability inherent in LIBERTY's
embarked element for technical research purposes combined
with interests of economy in personnel have dictated that
during LIBERTY's operation in her present configuration she
used the best embarked equipments and personnel available to
serve both her technical research requirements as well as
operational and administrative requirements for the ship
itself. The resulting consolidation of functions found
LIBERTY organized internally in a way such that, in the
person of a single officer we find both LIBERTY's
Communication Officer and the Assistant Director of
Technical Research. This system had well. After the attack,
those LIBERTY personnel left alive who had been serving in
combined capacities of this sort reported their conviction
that such practices should continue.

 

[CMike]

All the testimony can be found in the link too.

USS LIBERTY COURT OF INQUIRY

31. The aforementioned facts relative to communication
procedural peculiarities unique to ships of LIBERTY's
mission resulted in the ship transmitting under the
scheduling control of the research department. This practice
permitted optimum performance by the research department,
scheduling outgoing transmissions during lull periods of
research activities; furthermore, when available research
lull periods were short, the practice had grown up, quite
naturally, to combine into single transmission packages all
of the outgoing traffic which had accumulated. Such
procedures necessitated transmission of each ships
communication package under a classification applicable to
the highest classification of any single element within the
package itself. Such transmission packages would frequently
contain research material, ship position reports, and,
periodically, requests for messages missed on the regular
ship broadcast schedule. A built-in delay factor exists in
this procedure however, inasmuch as not all shore-based
terminals are equipped to accommodate research material. In
the case of LIBERTY during the time period under
consideration, the closest available eligible terminal for
LIBERTY research material was NAVSECGRUDET Morocco, rather
than NAVCOMMSTA Asmara, which happened to be serving LIBERTY
as a subscriber at the time of the attack. The above
conditions are detailed to point up occurrence of delays
which must be anticipated in any such system. In summary,
if LIBERTY had a normal outgoing message requesting missing
sked numbers, it would first have to wait, under normal
circumstances, for transmission during a lull period. It
would next, by virtue of leaving the ship as part of a
package containing research data, go to NAVSECGRU- DET
Morocco where the combined communication package would be
broken down in its component parts; thirdly, the element of
the package requesting retransmission of missed fleet
broadcast numbers would then have to be sent from NAVCOMMSTA
Morocco back to NAVCOMMSTA Asmara for action, Asmara being
the transmitting station serving LIBERTY at the time.

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32. Detailed questioning of available surviving
communication witnesses disclosed that LIBERTY had never
before found missing messages, subsequently requested and
received, to have been critical to ship's operational
commitments.

This fact was explained by ship's personnel as being due to
the very few messages ever missed. This condition was
attributed to superior equipment in the ship coupled with
the fact that the ship operated independently as a regular
practice and had not found herself wanting at any time
previous.

33. It is important to be aware at this point that there
are no logs and or records available in LIBERTY. There are
no communication officers left alive with first hand
knowledge of the missed message backlog on 8 June. It could
only be determined from testimony that the ship had been
copying transmissions from NAVCOMSTA Asmara with no apparent
difficulty from 70000lZ and the time of the attack. One
witness who was on watch on the Asmara broadcast between the
hours of 0645 and 1615 on 7 June stated that he had logged
no missed message numbers during the period of his watch and
that the reception of the JRAIT broadcast was excellent.

34. LIBERTY's technical mission was one that made it
necessary, in exercising the aforementioned close
cooperation, to use minimum electronic transmissions and
radiations on certain frequencies - radio transmissions
particularly. LIBERTY was continually subjected to and used
to the prejudicial effects such transmissions would on the
degree of efficiency of her primary functions. In summary
on this point, ships of LIBERTY's configuration, like
submarines, are members a "silent service" all their own.

35. It is found that it has been, and continues standard
practice, in ships of this type to cultivate great patience
with regards to desires to get electrical traffic off the
ship because of the prejudicial effect on the ship's
mission.

36. It is evident that communications procedures for ships
of this type would be improved were they to be considered in
a communication category analogous to submarines.

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37. On the matter of operational control of LIBERTY vis a
vis the precise directives to the ship governing the
application of her embarked capabilities, it is important to
understand LIBERTY's situation as a mobile platform, under
naval command, transporting capabilities belonging to a
service or agency other than the Navy. This condition and
situation, while not unique to naval platforms, requires a
complete awareness and understanding of the very close
coordination and cooperation between those responsible for
operation of and positioning of the platform itself in
relation to those responsible for the embarked capabilities.
Detailed testimony discloses that LIBERTY found absolutely
no difficulties accommodating to this conditions, unique
within the navy to ships off this particular type.

38. The on-line crypto capability has engendered a
dangerous willingness to send more classified traffic than
in days of manual decoding without required proportionate
increase in experienced supervisory personnel to ride herd
on traffic quantum increases. Conversely, we find often
very inexperienced personnel being the first to give
attention to misrouted messages such as those in question.

39. Key messages critical to international relations were
not in this case, paralleled on other circuits.

40. High precedence of operational messages is too often
not enough to overcome circuit choking resulting from large
volume of such as FBIS of the same precedence competing for
inexperienced operator attention at the same time.

41. LIBERTY's embarked "warning" capabilities apparently
gave no indication of impending danger during the period
prior to the attack.

42. LIBERTY had experienced periodic reconnaissance on this
and other operating stations which tended to create a
feeling of "acceptance without undue concern" conditions as
they were on 8 June 1967.

Reconnaissance experiences known to LIBERTY and other ships
of LIBERTY's class in other parts of the world minimized
concern by LIBERTY personnel

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over recon efforts on 8 June.

43. Commanding Officer LIBERTY appropriately reported
recon early on A.M. of 8 June through her "locating two".
This report was transmitted promptly by ship despite
temporary interruption of her mission, at the direction of
the Commanding Officer.

44. Up to the time of the attack, testimony disclosed no
reasons to abort LIBERTY's mission in accordance with
paragraph 1A of Appendix B to SM 676-66 of 19 August 1966.

45. The degrees of coordination and accuracy of the air and
surface attacks combined first to wipe out defense and
shipboard control capabilities, followed by the crippling
blow of a torpedo.

46. The Israeli aircraft rockets penetrated topside steel
easily, leaving roughly five inch holes, with innumerable
shrapnel pock marks on the inside of spaces penetrated.

47. The heroism displayed by the Commanding Officer,
officers and men of the LIBERTY was exceptional. The
Commanding Officer is being recommended for the
Congressional Medal, and the ship for an appropriate unit
citation. These planned actions are fully supported by
testimony to the Court.

48. LIBERTY apparently experienced a phenomenon identified
as electronic jamming of her voice radio just prior to and
during air attacks. This jamming was described as a steady
carrier without modulation.

49. Disparities in reported times relating to sequence of
events can well be attributed to the number of ship's clocks
on board hanging askew and often stopped from shock at
various times. It was necessary to reconstruct time
sequences, because QM notebook was incomplete from 1355 to
1446 since the QM was killed during the first attack.

50. Extent of Damage. The major material damage to LIBERTY
resulted from the torpedo explosion, as follows:

A. SHELL DAMAGE: Hole centered at FR 60 and extending 24
ft downward from just below second deck and longitudinally
from frame 53

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to frame 66 (39 feet). The hole was teardrop in shape,
larger at bottom.

B. Interior structural damage: Outboard 15 feet of first
platform and associated structure badly damaged. Lesser
damage to second platform deck (tank top). Second deck and
frames buckled from frame 52 to frame 62 and extending
inboard 15 feet.

C. Major damage to all interior joiner bulkheads below
second deck frame 52 to 78, entire width of ship.

In summary of above, the two research compartments, which
extend the entire width of the ship, suffered severe
structural damage and were flooded. Installed equipment and
fittings were reduced to twisted wreckage.

Topside damage resulting from aircraft strafing and rocked
attacks and from MTB strafing (ship was hit by more than
821 shells and rockets, many of them incendiary) summarized
as follows:

Pilot house and signal bridge forward deck house, all gun
tubs, many antennas including radar antenna, numerous
bulkheads and decks holed by explosive rockets. Whale boat
destroyed in davits by incendiary rockets and many life
rafts holed or burned in their stowages. Flag bags burned
and numerous fires resulting from incendiary munitions.

The gyro compass, air conditioning plant and many minor
items of equipment, located in superstructure spaces, were
damaged or destroyed. Numerous living spaces and personnel
effects damaged by holing, shrapnel and wetting during
firefighting.

Cost estimated - Value of destroyed research equipment $6-8
million, 12 months lead time. Structural repairs to ship
and ship's equipment $2-4 million, 3-4 months.

51. The Israeli government set forth 7 points of rationale
to explain their position relative to the attack on LIBERTY
in USDAO Tel Aviv message DTG 091520Z. Legal opinion and
other comments on each is appended hereto (Appendix VI).

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52. That any killed or wounded personnel attached to the
USS LIBERTY during the attack are eligible for the Purple
Heart under the provisions of SECNAVINST. P1650.1C Chapter
TWO SECTION THREE ARTICLE 231 PARA 12 b. sub-paras (4) and
(5). The Commanding Officer, USS LIBERTY is preparing a
listing of eligible personnel to be recommended.

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[signature] Isaac C. KIDD, Jr.
Rear Admiral, U.S. Navy
President

[signature] Bernard J. LAUFF
Captain, U.S. Navy Member

[signature] Bert N. ATKINSON,
Jr. Captain, U.S. Navy Member

[signature] Isaac C. KIDD, Jr. Rear Admiral, U.S. Navy
President

[signature] Ward BOSTON, Jr. Captain, U.S. Navy Counsel for
the Court

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[Octoldit]

Alan Fisher

Richard Brooks still remembers when the alert came.

With klaxons sounding and people yelling, the tannoy system warned everyone "Standby to receive torpedo hit".

"I thought I’ll never get out of this mess alive. Weird things were running through your minds, because I’d chalked myself off."

He felt the torpedoes hit and the ship pitch to one side but realised he was still alive.

And then the priority became survival. As chief engineer, he could tell the engines were still working. “My machinery was still intact and I was still making headway. I yelled through the voice tube ‘Give me all the steam pressure you’ve got, let’s get the hell out of this area’".

Eventually his ship, The USS Liberty made its way to safer waters and managed to take stock of the sustained attack. Thirty-four were lying dead, more than 171 were injured.

The victims of the day Israel attacked America.

The Liberty had been sitting in international waters off the Sinai Peninsula. A spy ship, it had been gathering information as the 1967 Arab-Israeli Six-Day War raged on land.

'Mistaken identity'

During the course of the day, the ship had been buzzed by Israeli aircraft. But flying the American flag, there was no cause for panic, no need for alarm.

“People were sunbathing, enjoying the June sunshine,” said Brooks, who was more concerned with keeping the engines running. The demands of the job perhaps saved his life.

Israel insisted it was a case of mistaken identity. It alleged that pilots were exhausted having fought so hard over the previous days. The US naval vessel was thought to be an Egyptian warship.

And that’s why it was attacked with rockets and cannons and missiles and torpedoes.

But Brooks doesn’t buy the Israeli apology. Standing next to the graves of his shipmates in Arlington National Cemetery he tells me “It wasn’t a tragic accident, It was a deliberate attack. They knew who we were. They tried to sink us. They wanted us out to either bring the Americans into the war by blaming the Arabs or we picked up some information about their war plans”.

INVESTIGATION: The Day Israel Attacked America

Websites set up to discuss the Liberty back Brooks’ suggestion. Some claim the Israeli planes which attacked were unmarked, hoping they’d be mistaken for Arab fighter jets. Others speculate that it was known the radio signals from the Liberty could be hacked by the Russians. And worried the US had picked up sensitive information about plans for the Golan Heights, which the Russians would pass to their allies, the Egyptians, the Israelis tried to sink the spy ship.

Every year on June 8, the survivors gather to mark the attack - to read the names of the dead and to share stories and memories.

The numbers are less every year. This year there were just seven survivors in attendance. But the passion to find out exactly what happened remains undiminished. As they stand between the white grave stones, a light summer breeze taking the edge off the afternoon heat, the memorial service also includes a call for justice and for truth.

'We had a ship to sail'

Ernie Gallo is the president of the USS Liberty Survivors Group.

When you apologise, you apologise with the truth. Not with a lie. So it’s not an apology.

Ernie Gallo, USS Liberty Survivors Group

He remembers the attack and how everything seemed surprisingly calm. “We had to do what we could for our dead and wounded. We had a ship to sail. We had to get to safety”

He’s read the reports, the official inquiries and read the books about the incident. He’s even written his own.

I ask if he accepts the Israeli apology, and the explanation it was all a mistake created in the fog of war: “When you apologise, you apologise with the truth. Not with a lie. So it’s not an apology. Not as far as I’m concerned and our government is just as bad off for going along with it," he answered.

To get a job on the Liberty, sailors were to have an outstanding service record and were chosen for their honesty and moral character. “Someone is lying here,” says Gallo, “and it isn’t us”.

Even now he hopes there will be a full official inquiry into the events of June 8, 1967.

Robert Brooks and Ernie Gallo know it’s unlikely, but they still hope it might happen. They both say the families of the dead and the survivors deserve the truth, before they mark another anniversary.

Source: Al Jazeera Remembering USS Liberty When Israel attacked America - Al Jazeera English

That's only one side of the story.

Yes, it is the American side of the story. You support the Israeli side of the story.

No it's the bullshit side of the story.

Remember the USS Cole. Now that was a deliberate attack by your Islamic brethren.

The Israeli's use false-flag operations with great skill to get American to die for them and fight their wars for them.

We were also told the "Islamic brethren" is Al Qaeda.

The "Islamic brethren" is the Muslim Brotherhood.

The "Islamic brethren" is ISIL.

The "Islamic brethren" is ISIS

Based on the nature of false-flags operations and the type of financing needed to fund these operations when It's all said and done don't be too surprised if:

The "Islamic brethren" are the mercenaries of the Israeli's!

 

[CMike]

Imagine that ------desperado claims that a row boat with some arabs in it was capable of doing MORE damage to the USS COLE than the entire Israeli airforce could manage to do to the USS LIBERTY. Gee-----must be DA WILL OF ALLAH

USS Liberty made some repairs and was able to sail away without needing assistance.
After so many years, investigations and books, why is this still such an issue? It was a tragedy to be sure but so was the USS Stark and all the mistaken strikes and friendly fire incidents by the US going back more than 200 yrs.

List of U.S. friendly-fire incidents since 1945 with British victims - Wikipedia the free encyclopedia
A-10 warplane tops list for friendly fire deaths
What Iran Air Flight 655 says about America s role in the Middle East - The Washington Post
You can search and find a list of many more

Aris----I was in the US navy ---short stint during peace time-------------.
commissioned officer. Based on the position I held I got
to know who died and how. ACCIDENT AND FRIENDLY FIRE is a major cause of death in the military even during
peace time--------I can say no more------it would be illegal.
I will say this regarding the reports of the kids on the ship
at the time. No one injured in accident-------says "it's ok----
no one is to blame" Personal injury is a TORT-----someone has to be BLAMED

Liberty should not be so much more of an issue than all the other incidents. Every year, sometimes several times a year the Liberty is brought up. I never hear anywhere close to as much or at all about all the other incidents of allied or US victims. We don't even hear as much about the Cole, let alone anbar towers, beirut marines, US embassies, etc.
The USS liberty has become a whipping boy for anyone that wants to undermine Israel. It is not about those lost or all that took place leading to the tragedy. It is just a way of inciting hate against Israel. It matters that those who use the USS Liberty omit the Navy's involvement that contributed to the incident. Those that use it against Israel lay 220% of the blame at Israel and claim it was intentional. It was not that simple. They don't bring it up for the sake of the victims, but a weapon against Israel. Most probably don't know anything about the victims except perhaps how many died. They usually don't know much about the incident either.

This horse has been beaten so many times it has turned to soup.

You don't hear about the Cole because there was no cover up. No one disputes that Islamic murderers attacked and killed U.S. servicemen intentionally. You dispute the fact that the Israelis attacked the Liberty and killed U.S. servicemen intentionally. Get it?

And there was no cover up here other than in the sick and twisted minds of some.

 

[Octoldit]

But you omit the many mistakes by the navy and even the crew of the USS Liberty that contributed to the tragic incident.
Israel was at war and had just been attacked. US Navy denied they had any ships in the area, twice
.

After seeing posts about the Liberty over 10,000 or more times, it is time to hang up this subject, especially since so much is going on in the Middle East at this time. American military men are not thinking about the Liberty but about what the Jihadis are doing to innocent people these days. It seems that Al Jazeera (Isn't that owned by the Qatar government?) wants to drive a wedge between the U.S. and Israel, and all the anti-Semites pick up that article. Maybe Al Jazeera figures this will take some of the heat off the fact that all those laborers are working under slave-like conditions in Qatar, workers that the anti-Semites care nothing about because they can't use it in their propaganda stints against Israel. The anti-Semites should visit some Naval installations and ask the sailors if they are thinking about the Liberty or are they thinking about how busy extremists are busy murdering all the time. I am willing to bet that if instead of the Israelis mistaking the Intelligence Ship, the South Koreans mistook an American Intelligent Ship and bombed it, we would not be seeing ten thousand plus posts about this incident. However, since it was the Israelis, a million posts about this wouldn't be enough for the anti-Semites.

Say, I wonder if one of the anti-Semites here can contact Al Jazzera and have them run a piece about the bombing of the Marine barracks in Lebanon in which so many American and French servicemen were killed. Maybe we can get 10,000 plus posts on this incident.

In many cases those with an enormous amount to hide try to push people to “move on”. You want Americans to “hang up this subject”, Why should America's “hang up this subject”? Have the Israeli's hung up on the pity the “blameless Jew” brainwash films, or the “reparations” for a holocaust that they go to great extremes not report on any verifiable details, or to truly investigate.

Brings back memories of Stalinist Russia for those in Europe to be arrested for even questioning whether the so-called Holocaust even really took place. If that's not bad enough right here in America those of duel Israeli citizenship are pushing for laws to basically calling it a hate crime to question the so-called holocaust. These are no doubt communist methods, and it's amazing how few people seem to recognize it. Which is a testimonial to the effectiveness of the billion dollar mind control industry, commonly known as the media.

Don't get angry because Israeli's can't control all the news reporting and an more independent media source reports on the story, and tells the story their way. For their is little doubt that if Zionist could have an monopoly on information they most certainly would. The manipulation of the mind is what television is all about these days, and the information feed to the masses of people are very destructive, dangerous. Enormous lies are broadcast all the time.

Truth is the only reality. The creation of a bogus reality by deception through the media and pass it off as truth is extremely destructive. It's the false flag operations that Zionist skillfully use to instigate serious wars. Much bloodshed are the result of those who manipulate the minds of people to sell, and try to justify wholesale murder and brutality by wars.


“Let's move on” is what former president George Bush said after 9-11, which is something that is very disturbing for leader and president at the time to tell the nation. “Let move on” does not answer the critical questions, and even more disturbing is that “just moving on” leaves the doors wide open for worst things to happen again.

The USS Liberty helped over the door to America's destruction. For those who can just print up paper money the attack on the USS Liberty made it clear to the Israeli's that bribery at any level or agency of government is possible even to the point of the military allowing the killing American solders.

The reality is that there is no group of people more Anti-America than those using Anti-Semite as a mind control trick to divert the conversation away from all the that Israeli's/Jews have done and continue to do take over this country with communism. Russia gets the blame for being the communist, the reality is that the Communist Jews took over Russia, murdered the last Czar and his family.

After the Jews Stole the entire country it became communist. It was not Russia that was Communist, it was the Jews that made Russia communist. Just open your eyes they are attempting to do the same thing in the United States and the world.

Get off your soapbox. You are not fooling anyone, but are just another two-bit anti-Semite. And if you think the Jews are trying to take over the world, I suggest you change psychiatrists.

The evidence speaks for itself loud and clear. It's the central banks that are placed in countries throughout the world, which are a large part of the delusion Zionist vain hope of taking over the world. After the theft of Russia they vowed to take over all of Europe. Germany was an major obstacle however, and at that time the communist Jews could not pull off the take over of Europe.

The countries of Europe had their own currency and the sovereignty that comes with it. The wicked quest of the Zionist in taking over Europe and the world has not ending, however the methods are more discreet, but the efforts continue. The Zionist international bankers boast that if they control the money, the laws of the land is meaningless to them and they in fact control the nation. The European union is a large step toward taking over control over Europe country's by tricking these nations into having a common currency. NATO has a very dark side unrevealed to most.

Libya, Syria, and Iran are part of the few country's of meaningful wealth to the bankers, that do not have a central bank. We've seen what they did to Libya, one of the wealthiest country's in Africa, now it's been reduced to poverty, instability, and war between the divided factions. Libya now has a central bank, just as Iraq now has the central Bank that they did not have before the invasion. An invasion based on the lies put forth by a false-flag Zionist attack in America.

Madness is far beyond the need of a psychiatrists. People suffering from madness don't know they need serious help, they don't know that they are insane. People suffering from madness appear to be normal functioning human beings, but this is far from the truth. One that is insane is mostly a danger to themselves, and sometimes others, but people suffering from madness are capable of brutally killing many millions of people and think nothing of it. Psychopaths and sociopaths are extremely dangerous people.

Blinded by their own beastly greed, vanity, and arrogance that have no respect for life, the sovereignty of other nations, or civilization based on civilized conduct. “By any means necessary” is a sub-human savage concept. They don't care if they poison all the water with fluoride etc, poison the food with pesticide, poison the air with a mix of slow kill toxic substances. Maybe it will be more helpful to understand the big picture in terms of madness and insanity and you'll be better equipped to suggest who needs to change psychiatrists Doc.

>>Libya, Syria, and Iran are part of the few country's of meaningful wealth to the bankers, that do not have a central bank.<<

Speaking without engaging your brain. Don't you check facts before posting? Or is your personal prejudice making you constipated?

Does one really have to include "Zionist" central bank to make things coherent.

 

[Andylusion]

I don't think the families of our sailors killed by the Israelis are drama queens.

No but you are.

 

[Andylusion]

There can be no denying it was deliberate attack on an American vessel and what is worse is that the US Government recalled the fighters sent to protect the Liberty.
These sailors were all intense purposes were left for dead by the LBJ administration.

The ship was not supposed to be in the war zone. They were supposed to have received orders putting it closer to the libyan border but for some reason the orders were sent via the Philippines to the Med so the orders were delayed.
Israel twice asked for conformation that the US had no ships in the area.
There was a laundry list of mistakes, even disobeying Captain McGonagle's orders not to fire in the Israelis.
All of this was recoded in the initial interviews on board the Liberty right after the incident. There were several inquiries into the events and it always came down to error and mistaken identity, not a deliberate act against the US.
US asked Israel to pay restitution, which they did.

Agreed, and of course the US has *NEVER* in it's whole history hit the wrong target in any military operation ever conducted.

Everyone grasps that concept, and attacks the military repeatedly for any mistake... but when it comes to Israel, suddenly is magically an intentional deliberate attack, pre-planned to kill Americans.... or maybe it was a mistake, like we have done millions of times.

Anti-Israel people just make up crap. I'm used to it.

 

[kiwiman127]

Alan Fisher

Richard Brooks still remembers when the alert came.

With klaxons sounding and people yelling, the tannoy system warned everyone "Standby to receive torpedo hit".

"I thought I’ll never get out of this mess alive. Weird things were running through your minds, because I’d chalked myself off."

He felt the torpedoes hit and the ship pitch to one side but realised he was still alive.

And then the priority became survival. As chief engineer, he could tell the engines were still working. “My machinery was still intact and I was still making headway. I yelled through the voice tube ‘Give me all the steam pressure you’ve got, let’s get the hell out of this area’".

Eventually his ship, The USS Liberty made its way to safer waters and managed to take stock of the sustained attack. Thirty-four were lying dead, more than 171 were injured.

The victims of the day Israel attacked America.

The Liberty had been sitting in international waters off the Sinai Peninsula. A spy ship, it had been gathering information as the 1967 Arab-Israeli Six-Day War raged on land.

'Mistaken identity'

During the course of the day, the ship had been buzzed by Israeli aircraft. But flying the American flag, there was no cause for panic, no need for alarm.

“People were sunbathing, enjoying the June sunshine,” said Brooks, who was more concerned with keeping the engines running. The demands of the job perhaps saved his life.

Israel insisted it was a case of mistaken identity. It alleged that pilots were exhausted having fought so hard over the previous days. The US naval vessel was thought to be an Egyptian warship.

And that’s why it was attacked with rockets and cannons and missiles and torpedoes.

But Brooks doesn’t buy the Israeli apology. Standing next to the graves of his shipmates in Arlington National Cemetery he tells me “It wasn’t a tragic accident, It was a deliberate attack. They knew who we were. They tried to sink us. They wanted us out to either bring the Americans into the war by blaming the Arabs or we picked up some information about their war plans”.

INVESTIGATION: The Day Israel Attacked America

Websites set up to discuss the Liberty back Brooks’ suggestion. Some claim the Israeli planes which attacked were unmarked, hoping they’d be mistaken for Arab fighter jets. Others speculate that it was known the radio signals from the Liberty could be hacked by the Russians. And worried the US had picked up sensitive information about plans for the Golan Heights, which the Russians would pass to their allies, the Egyptians, the Israelis tried to sink the spy ship.

Every year on June 8, the survivors gather to mark the attack - to read the names of the dead and to share stories and memories.

The numbers are less every year. This year there were just seven survivors in attendance. But the passion to find out exactly what happened remains undiminished. As they stand between the white grave stones, a light summer breeze taking the edge off the afternoon heat, the memorial service also includes a call for justice and for truth.

'We had a ship to sail'

Ernie Gallo is the president of the USS Liberty Survivors Group.

When you apologise, you apologise with the truth. Not with a lie. So it’s not an apology.

Ernie Gallo, USS Liberty Survivors Group

He remembers the attack and how everything seemed surprisingly calm. “We had to do what we could for our dead and wounded. We had a ship to sail. We had to get to safety”

He’s read the reports, the official inquiries and read the books about the incident. He’s even written his own.

I ask if he accepts the Israeli apology, and the explanation it was all a mistake created in the fog of war: “When you apologise, you apologise with the truth. Not with a lie. So it’s not an apology. Not as far as I’m concerned and our government is just as bad off for going along with it," he answered.

To get a job on the Liberty, sailors were to have an outstanding service record and were chosen for their honesty and moral character. “Someone is lying here,” says Gallo, “and it isn’t us”.

Even now he hopes there will be a full official inquiry into the events of June 8, 1967.

Robert Brooks and Ernie Gallo know it’s unlikely, but they still hope it might happen. They both say the families of the dead and the survivors deserve the truth, before they mark another anniversary.

Source: Al Jazeera Remembering USS Liberty When Israel attacked America - Al Jazeera English

I can't see why folks would blame Israel, they thought the Liberty was an Egyptian Warship.
Who wouldn't confuse the flag of the US and Egypt? I mean really?