USS Liberty:Operation Northwoods?

[georgephillip]

"Fifteen years after the attack, an Israeli pilot approached Liberty survivors and then held extensive interviews with former Congressman Paul N. (Pete) McCloskey about his role. According to this senior Israeli lead pilot, he recognized the Liberty as American immediately, so informed his headquarters, and was told to ignore the American flag and continue his attack. He refused to do so and returned to base, where he was arrested."

Another idiot?

The Assault on the USS Liberty Still Covered Up After 26 Years

 

[Warrior102]

"Fifteen years after the attack, an Israeli pilot approached Liberty survivors and then held extensive interviews with former Congressman Paul N. (Pete) McCloskey about his role. According to this senior Israeli lead pilot, he recognized the Liberty as American immediately, so informed his headquarters, and was told to ignore the American flag and continue his attack. He refused to do so and returned to base, where he was arrested."

Another idiot?

The Assault on the USS Liberty Still Covered Up After 26 Years

Arrested by who?
For what?
Credible citation? Of course not...

 

[georgephillip]

Is James Ennes a credible source?

"Retired naval Lieutenant Commander James Ennes, a junior officer (and off-going Officer of the Deck) on Liberty's bridge at the time of the attack, authored a book titled Assault on the Liberty (Random House, 1980; Ballantine Books 1986; Reintree Press 2004) describing the incident during the Six Day War in June 1967 and claiming, among other things, it was deliberate.

"Ennes and Joe Meadors, another survivor of the attack, run a website[53] about the incident.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Liberty_incident#Ongoing_controversy_and_unresolved_questions

"The Assault on the USS Liberty Still Covered Up After 26 Years

By James M. Ennes Jr.

Twenty-six years have passed since that clear day on June 8, 1967 when Israel attacked the USS Liberty with aircraft and torpedo boats, killing 34 young men and wounding 171. The attack in international waters followed over nine hours of close surveillance.

"Israeli pilots circled the ship at low level 13 times on eight different occasions before attacking.

"Radio operators in Spain, Lebanon, Germany and aboard the ship itself all heard the pilots reporting to their headquarters that this was an American ship.

"They attacked anyway. And when the ship failed to sink, the Israeli government concocted an elaborate story to cover the crime.

"There is no question that this attack on a U.S. Navy ship was deliberate. This was a coordinated effort involving air, sea, headquarters and commando forces attacking over a long period. It was not the 'few rounds of misdirected fire' that Israel would have the world believe.

"Worse, the Israeli excuse is a gross and detailed fabrication that disagrees entirely with the eyewitness recollections of survivors. Key American leaders call the attack deliberate. More important, eyewitness participants from the Israeli side have told survivors that they knew they were attacking an American ship.

"Israeli Pilot Speaks Up...

The Assault on the USS Liberty Still Covered Up After 26 Years

 

[MikeK]

Arrested by who?
For what?
Credible citation? Of course not...

Forty million dollars and months of time were wasted on investigating the Clinton blowjob. But in spite of the testimony of the Liberty's crew, their unanimous insistence that the attack was deliberate, items of condemning information gathered by respected investigative reporters such as James Bamford, and the stated conclusions of the Secretaries of State and The Navy, do you consider it unusual that the Congress has not seen fit to conduct a formal investigation of the attack and put all the questions to rest?

 

[georgephillip]

Arrested by who?
For what?
Credible citation? Of course not...

Forty million dollars and months of time were wasted on investigating the Clinton blowjob. But in spite of the testimony of the Liberty's crew, their unanimous insistence that the attack was deliberate, items of condemning information gathered by respected investigative reporters such as James Bamford, and the stated conclusions of the Secretaries of State and The Navy, do you consider it unusual that the Congress has not seen fit to conduct a formal investigation of the attack and put all the questions to rest?

What do you think the effects would be on US politics today if the same percentage of Americans who believed Richard Nixon was a crook in 1974 became convinced the attack on Liberty was conceived at the highest levels of the US and Israeli government in 1967?

 

[BolshevikHunter]

Did Operation Northwoods come to the Eastern Mediterranean 44 years ago today?

"On June 8, 1967, US Navy intelligence ship USS Liberty was suddenly and brutally attacked on the high seas in international waters by the air and naval forces of Israel.

"The Israeli forces attacked with full knowledge that this was an American ship and lied about it.

"Survivors have been forbidden for 40 years to tell their story under oath to the American public.

"The USS Liberty Memorial web site tells their story and is dedicated to the memory of the 34 brave men who died.

The Attack

"After surveilling USS Liberty for more than nine hours with almost hourly aircraft overflights and radar tracking, the air and naval forces of Israel attacked our ship in international waters without warning.

"USS Liberty was identified as a US naval ship by Israeli reconnaissance aircraft nine hours before the attack and continuously tracked by Israeli radar and aircraft thereafter.

"Sailing in international waters at less than five knots, with no offensive armament, our ship was not a military threat to anyone.

"The Israeli forces attacked without warning and without attempting to contact us.

"Thirty four Americans were killed in the attack and another 174 were wounded..."

USS Liberty Memorial

Did President Lyndon Johnson and Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara know in advance of the attack on Liberty?

Two attempts by the 6th Fleet to come to the ship's rescue were called back on their orders:

"...(h)e told me that upon receipt of our SOS, aircraft were launched to come to our assistance and then Washington was notified. He said that the Secretary of Defense (Robert McNamara) had ordered that the aircraft be returned to the carrier, which was done.

"RADM Geis then said that he speculated that Washington may have suspected that the aircraft carried nuclear weapons so he put together another flight of conventional aircraft that had no capability of carrying nuclear weapons.

"These he launched to assist us and again notified Washington of his actions. Again McNamara ordered the aircraft recalled. He (Geis) requested confirmation of the order being unable to believe that Washington would let us sink.

"This time President Johnson ordered the recall with the comment that he did not care if every man drowned and the ship sank, but that he would not embarrass his allies..."

USS Liberty incident - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Please shut up

~BH