USS Liberty Dead in the Water
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. This USS Liberty Memorial web site tells their story and is dedicated to the memory of the 34 brave men who died.
After surveilling USS Liberty for more than nine hours with almost hourly aircraft over flights 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 nine hours before the attack by Israeli reconnaissance aircraft 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. The ship, a $40 Million Dollar state of the art signals intelligence platform, was later declared unsalvageable and sold for scrap.
I'm not even a yank, I'm Australian but we are your true allies / brothers. How wasn't that McNamara hung by rope is beyond me. Tell me people how do these so called people keep getting away with this. SEIG HEIL
what i have learned: armies should skip breakfast because most big attacks happen around that time
They fid it so usa bombed egypt thinking theyed done it yhere underhand jewish scum who btw own america makes me wonder hitler was onto sonething obviously done the wrong actions but !!!!
The truth is that Israel is first all others second. They would throw America under the bus in a Zion minute. So far 82 billion in free aid from us America. It's time they stand on their own! All the news behind the attack must be tried in American court for murder. And that idiot that stated in was investigated yeah sure so that we would never find a Israel crime. It's long overdue!
Since the 1967 attack on the Liberty the USA has paid on average $8 million a day for 50 years for a total of over $3 billions to Israel. With friends like these , who needs enemies!!!
You're kidding me Account & Video have been removed? hahahah
I guess there was truth to this! :D
ABC will air Jacqueline Kennedy's tapes accusing President Johnson of killing her husband. Johnson would never have been president had Kennedy not died while in office. What did President Johnson owe Israel?
Remember the Maine...Remember Pearl Harbor.. Remember Tripoli... Remember the Boston Massacre.. Remember Lexington and Concord.. Remember Gettysburg....Remember Ft. Sumter... Remember Antietam..Remember 9/11...Remember the Cole..Remember Beirut... Remember Khobar Towers.. Remember the Starks. Remember the Roberts.. Remember Col. William Higgins.. Remember Navy Diver Robert Stethem..Remember 9/11..Israel was recently cleared yet again, of intentionally attacking a US Spy Vessel. Out of the hundreds of attacks on US interests around the World, one was by Israel. It was 48 years ago. Israel was cleared yet again of INTENTIONALLY attacking a US Vessel. Again.
Israel has lied about so many things that if anyone over believes what they say is diluted. Israel is a nation that should not exist. The Jews Began in 1948 setting up two terror groups to do attack itself making it look like from other groups so they could attack them. Israel was allowed to move to that place with the understanding they would live along side and cooperate with those already there. That agreement was signed in 1917 in exchange for help from the Jews during WWII. They had no intentions of letting the people already there to remain there. They were backed by the British until in the late 1950s.
It was Pres Johnson who ordered our jets,set out to defend the ship, to return and he alone is the culprit responsible for this murderous deed. Of course ,in my humble opinion.
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The point that Israel is supposed to be the best friend the US has appears to have escaped you. What this video makes painfully clear is that not only is this not true - it is a deliberate lie. The US is the country that Israel hates the most! How else can one describe its attitude to its greatest benefactor. Israel shows and has shown more respect to it enemies.
I found disconcerting in so many of the comments that one mistaken attack by Israel is more important to you than the thousands up thousands of terrorist attacks yearly and the millions of militant Muslims in the world who consider us infidels and want us dead. Their hate against us has little do with Israel since it has been going on for hundreds of years. Our first battle encounter as a new country was against militant Muslims kidnapping our men. It is clear as day who our real enemies are but you would rather muddle in stupid conspiracies no different what Hitler and the Nazis did to stir up hate.
Are you people kidding? See this is exactly what I have been talking about lately. People are so amazingly gullible and outright friggin DUMB. The truth has been available on line for a very long time, but most are just to SOMETHING to figure it out. I mean only an absolute i*iot would not know the truth of the matter. And anyone who has ever believed that Israel was ever a friend of the United States needs their head examined. Israel, and the Jews can be proven to be responsible for nearly ALL of the terrorist attacks that have place around the globe since WW I, if not before. Anybody who cares to know the truth can easily become enlightened by simply looking around a bit. I can promise you that you will be quite surprised to learn that everything you have been told are complete and utter lies. You doubt me? I dare you to prove me wrong. Any of you brainy acks!
Bring it on. I can show you s*it that will blow your mind.
both documentary and book "assault on the Liberty" show a very compelling time line for many so-called mistakes on the part of Israel and the Johnson administration. To indicate that no one knew of the USS Liberty floating in the area of conflict and to attack as such...a suspected enemy vessel...seems a bit far fetched. Our US Navy boys that were murdered and wounded that day and their families deserve much better from the Israelis and (if any are still alive) their US counterparts in this matter. In my opinion a black stain will always be shadowing this debacle for both countries. I remember Black September kidnapping and murdering the Israeli team in Germany. I supported Israel then. The cry went out worldwide at that despicable crime. Yet for the Liberty the story was found on page29 of the NY Times. Mistake? Hmm I have a better chance of believing that our astronauts came back from the moon with green cheese...and try to convince us that there's more where that came from.
Wow, what a hysterical pack of lies!
he tragic Israeli attack on the USS Liberty on June 8, 1967, has provoked a great deal of controversy and longstanding anger among surviving members of the crew. Though residual anger and suspicions remain, the incident was the subject of ten U.S. investigations and three more by Israel. In the American case, the full weight of the U.S. government was behind the investigations, which had access to all the relevant information. Though some accusations have been made suggesting the reports sough to hide facts or protect Israel, no credible evidence for these charges has been produced.
Investigation Date Conclusion
U.S. Navy Court of Inquiry June 10-18, 1967 The attack was a case of mistaken identity. Calm conditions and slow ship speed may have made American flag difficult to identify. No indication the attack was intended against U.S. ship.
CIA Report June 13, 1967 The attack was not made in malice and was a mistake.
Joint Chiefs of Staff Fact Finding Team (Russ Report) June 9-20, 1967 Outlined "findings of fact," bud did not make any findings about the actual attack.
Clifford Report July 18, 1967 No premeditation, but "inexcusable failures" by Israeli forces constituing "gross negligence."
Senate Committee on Foreign Relations 1967 Secretary of Defense McNamara testified he supported conclusion that the attack was not intentional.
Senate Armed Services Committee Feb. 1, 1968 No conclusion. Secretary McNamara makes comparison of attack on Liberty to that on Pueblo with regard to uncertainty about what was happening at the time of the incident.
House Appropriations Committee April-May 1968 Navy communications "foulup" and no conclusion regarding Israeli actions. Much of report remains classified.
House Armed Services Committee May 10, 1971 Critical of Navy communications, no conclusion regarding Israeli actions.
Senate Select Committee on Intelligence 1979 Responding to critical book by Liberty crewman James Ennes, Senate investigation found no merit to his claim attack was intentional.
National Security Agency 1981 Liberty was mistaken for an Egyptian ship as a result of miscalculations and egregious errors.
House Armed Services Committee June 1991 Responding to request from Liberty Veterans Association, Subcommitte on Investigations launched probe that concluded there was no evidence to support allegations made by the Association and no reason for further investigation.
Something is rotten in the state of Israel, and it smells a lot like the stench one encounters in Washington. The "special relationships" has been corrupt since it began. It's too bad that such a large majority of Americans have been bamboozled into blindly supporting such an ill-gotten country.
That is, of course, changing, but it may be too slow to help the Palestinians -- and definitely too slow to save the Iranians, who only want to inject a bit of balance into Middle East power relations.
Israel is our ally? With friends like Israel, who needs enemies?
I was once a huge supporter of Israel, but the USS Liberty incident is the reason I no longer have any faith whatsoever in the Israel. They have lost my support and proven to me that their actions are not dissimilar to Nazi-esque criminal acts. It is really that shocking...
Anwsers will come when Israel is no longer a friend of America.Then and now they are the biggest terrorists in the world along with the America and the freedoms millions have fought and died for.They let Israel get away with it knowing full well then new it was American.America fights illegal wars for israel and money in the form of oil.Ameica never fights for the people infact they kill there own remember 9/11 and 7/7.Its far past time we get rid of the criminals in are government.LBJ was involved in the death of JFK and most likely so was Israel and the Masons,We really don't know how deep this criminal activitys go.But far further than most no.The last real American President was JFK and the next if elected President would be DR Paul.I have no faitrh that American elections are noy riged look at Bush.If the same standards that were used against the Nazis were now used not just the government would be hung so would all the military like in Germany only about 60- years ago.The American government steps all over the constitution that every person in government and military including duges are guilty of breaking the law.It is every American citizerns obligation to fight enemys forehn or demestic and that includes the Americans tyranicle government.People need to put differences aside like race and religion ands any other and stands as 1 to get your country back that your ancestors fought and died for.Every able body American need to be demanding a hole new uncorrupt government that stands for the people and obides by the constitution.There is time it can be done but the longer the wait the less chance of being successful.
JONATHAN POLLARD ANY ONE REMEMBERS HIM?? AND ISRAEL WNATS HIM BACK AS FAR AS I AM CONCERNED F------K ISRAEL AND ALL WHOM THINK THEY ARE WORTHY OF OUR TRUST OR HELP IF THE JEWS INN THE US LOVE ISRAEL SO MUCH THEY SHOULD GO HOME TOO.
WE NEED NO TREASONERS HERE NOR TRAITORS.
Operation Cyanide? Looks like there was a deal between the US and Israel to sink the Liberty and blame it on Egypt thus allowing the US to enter the war. Problem was the Liberty didn't sink and many witnesses were left alive thus the need for the cover up.
I agree with Steve.
Interesting Comments but Steve's show he has never been there and met the people involved. Don't get me wrong I spent 4-5 months living and travelling through the Middle East and by the end of it I hated the Jews more than the Arabs. However after going to Yad Vashem I got an insight into the Israeli paranoia and arrogance and now only hate them both equally with a grudging respect for the Israeli predicament (this is a flippant generalisation about the people you meet travelling rather than a comment on the entire cultures but rest assured I hate all nationalities (including my own) relatively equally).
I am not American and as such perhaps do not appreciate the complexities of your relationship but even siblings get into fights growing up. I have not watched the special but while reading the comments to decide if I want to I cannot help but think the Israeli’s I know would sink anyone’s (including a friends) spy ship in the leadup to a war.
It’s a simple rule “don’t poke the bear..”, it doesn’t matter if you are in the right you just know whats going to happen and when it does you cant really complain. Standing up to a serial killer with anger management problems that has taken your designated car spot is your right, however is it prudent? If you feel you should do it fine but don’t then complain about the results as everyone else saw it coming..