| Author | Message | | Jefferson Davis | | Posted: Sat Jun 02, 2007 5:30 am Post subject: Survivors of USS Liberty attack want questions answered |
| Survivors of USS Liberty attack want questions answered
Friday, June 1, 2007
Reported by: Mike Gooding
They just didn't see it coming. But why would they?
"Nobody expected anything out of the ordinary. Then there were jets strafing us with rockets and machine gun fire, napalm starting fires on the ship,” recalled Jim Smith.
That was before the torpedoes were fired.
"Luckily, four of them missed. One of them didn't," he said, adding it disabled his ships's communications systems.
Smith was a 20-year old damage controlman third class on June 8, 1967, when the Norfolk-based USS Liberty was attacked. Today, he’s 60 and a retired lieutenant commander.
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He’s amazed the story isn’t well known.
The hour-long attack took place 12 miles from the Sinai Peninsula during the Arab-Israeli Six-Day War. 34 men lost their lives. 172 men were wounded.
Smith received a Purple Heart and a Bronze Star. What he really wants, though, is answers.
Officially, the U.S and Israel said the attack was a mistake, with Israel ultimately paying $13 million in humanitarian reparations and compensation to victims' families.
Smith isn't satisfied.
“We feel that the incident was deliberate, that the Israelis, for whatever reason, were trying to destroy our communication interception abilities,” he said, “and it was covered up not only by the Israeli government but by the American government.”
He says he and other members of the USS Liberty Association are want the story to be told and for the truth to come out.
For the record, Israel claimed its air and naval forces mistakenly identified USS Liberty as the Wgyptian vessel "El Quseir."
As for the Liberty itself, it was decommissioned the following year - 1968 - and sold for scrap in 1973.
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2007 will be the 40th anniversary of injustice and murder and coverup.
http://usslibertyinquiry.com/
www.ussliberty.org
Lest We Forget | |  | | Cowboy | | Posted: Sat Jun 02, 2007 5:34 am Post subject: |
| It is ridiculous to pretend that there is no such thing as 'friendly fire', or that it only comes from Israelis.
In just modern naval history we have the following, which includes countries attacking and in some cases sinking even their own ships...
1940 - Operation Wikinger: German destroyer sunk by Luftwaffe bombs, another sunk by mines during confusion
1941 - Brit Fleet Air Arm torpedo attack on HMS Sheffield during the hunt for the German battleship Bismarck
1942 - Polish submarine ORP Jastrząb was mistakenly sunk by British destroyer HMS St. Albans and minesweeper HMS Seagull
1944 - British flotilla attacked by RAF Hawker Typhoons, off Cap d'Antifer, Le Havre. HMS Britomart and HMS Hussar sunk. HMS Salamander damaged beyond repair and scrapped. HMS Jason escaped major damage
1967 - US accidently attacks Russian ship in Haiphong Harbor, Vietnam
1968 - USS Boston, USS Edson, USCGC Point Dume, HMAS Hobart and two U.S. Swift Boats, PCF-12 and PCF-19 are attacked by US aircraft on June 17 in the Vietnam War. Several sailors were killed and PCF-19 was sunk.
1974 - Turkish Destroyer Kocatepe was sunk by Turkish aircraft during the Turkish invasion of Cyprus.
1982 - HMS Cardiff shoots down AAC Gazelle (UK) in the Falklands Islands
1992 - USS Saratoga during an no-notice exercise that included a simulated RIM-7 launch; confusion ensued, and a sailor launched into the bridge of the Turkish destroyer Muavenet killing 5.
2003 - British Royal Marine Christopher Maddison killed when his river patrol boat was hit by missiles after being wrongly identified as an enemy vessel approaching a Royal Engineers checkpoint on the Al-Faw Peninsula, Iraq. | | | | Jefferson Davis | | Posted: Sat Jun 02, 2007 5:40 am Post subject: |
| Divert , avoid and spam. Notice the title of this thread?...USS LIBERTY.
Do any of the crews on those ships you listed question the official outcome of those events?
No. they have no relevance here. Nice try yid.
Keep apologizing, Go back to Israel Mr. AIPAC.
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2007 will be the 40th anniversary of injustice and murder and coverup.
http://usslibertyinquiry.com/
www.ussliberty.org
Lest We Forget | | | | Cowboy | | Posted: Sat Jun 02, 2007 5:44 am Post subject: |
| | Quote: | | Divert , avoid and spam. Notice the title of this thread?...USS LIBERTY. |
A friendly fire incident.
Poor try on your part, fake American. | | | | Jefferson Davis | | Posted: Sat Jun 02, 2007 5:54 am Post subject: |
| Do any of the crews on those ships you listed question the official outcome of those events?
Can't answer that one can you Mr. AIPAC?
Void and divert. | | | | Cowboy | | Posted: Sat Jun 02, 2007 5:58 am Post subject: |
| | I refer you to the string with USS Liberty crew sworn testimony | | | | Jefferson Davis | | Posted: Sat Jun 02, 2007 6:03 am Post subject: |
| Do any of the crews on those ships you listed question the official outcome of those events?
STILL can't answer that one can you Mr. AIPAC?
Void and divert. SOP from the apologists | | | | Cowboy | | Posted: Sat Jun 02, 2007 7:15 am Post subject: |
| | Questioning it? It has been investigated. Numerous times. By numerous entities, including Congress. | | | | Jefferson Davis | | Posted: Sat Jun 02, 2007 10:02 am Post subject: |
| | Mr. AIPAC wrote: | 1940 - Operation Wikinger: German destroyer sunk by Luftwaffe bombs, another sunk by mines during confusion
1941 - Brit Fleet Air Arm torpedo attack on HMS Sheffield during the hunt for the German battleship Bismarck
1942 - Polish submarine ORP Jastrząb was mistakenly sunk by British destroyer HMS St. Albans and minesweeper HMS Seagull
1944 - British flotilla attacked by RAF Hawker Typhoons, off Cap d'Antifer, Le Havre. HMS Britomart and HMS Hussar sunk. HMS Salamander damaged beyond repair and scrapped. HMS Jason escaped major damage
1967 - US accidently attacks Russian ship in Haiphong Harbor, Vietnam
1968 - USS Boston, USS Edson, USCGC Point Dume, HMAS Hobart and two U.S. Swift Boats, PCF-12 and PCF-19 are attacked by US aircraft on June 17 in the Vietnam War. Several sailors were killed and PCF-19 was sunk.
1974 - Turkish Destroyer Kocatepe was sunk by Turkish aircraft during the Turkish invasion of Cyprus.
1982 - HMS Cardiff shoots down AAC Gazelle (UK) in the Falklands Islands
1992 - USS Saratoga during an no-notice exercise that included a simulated RIM-7 launch; confusion ensued, and a sailor launched into the bridge of the Turkish destroyer Muavenet killing 5.
2003 - British Royal Marine Christopher Maddison killed when his river patrol boat was hit by missiles after being wrongly identified as an enemy vessel approaching a Royal Engineers checkpoint on the Al-Faw Peninsula, Iraq. |
Do any of the crews on those ships you listed question the official outcome of those events?
STILL can't answer that one can you Mr. AIPAC?
Void and divert. Standard operating procedure for 40 years from the apologists.
_________________
2007 will be the 40th anniversary of injustice and murder and coverup.
http://usslibertyinquiry.com/
www.ussliberty.org
Lest We Forget | | | | funglefoot | | Posted: Sat Jun 02, 2007 12:43 pm Post subject: |
| | cowgoebbels wrote: | C.I.A. report June 13, 1967 no malice; attack a mistake
Report by Clark Clifford July 18, 1967 no evidence ship was known to be American
Senate Select Committee on Intelligence 1979/1981 no merit to claims attack was intentional
National Security Agency 1981 Mistaken identity
House Armed Services Cmtee 1991/1992 No support for claims attack was intentiona | l
ACCORDING TO REAR ADMIRAL MERLIN STARING, A FORMER JUDGE ADVOCATE GENERAL OF THE US NAVY NONE OF THE ABOVE IS A US GOVERNMENT INVESTIGATION INTO THE ATTACK ON THE LIBERTY.
THE ADMIRAL SAYS..."WE WERE VERY PLEASED TO, FINALLY TO HAVE THE DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY RESPONDING TO THE CONGRESS AND SAYING THE ONLY US GOVERNMENT INVESTIGATION OF THE LIBERTY ATTACK WAS THE US NAVY COURT OF INQUIRY IN 1967".
THE DEPT OF THE NAVY CONFIRMED [MARCH 2005] TO ROB SIMMONDS, A MEMBER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, THAT THE ONLY INVESTIGATION INTO THE USS LIBERTY ATTACK WAS CONDUCTED BY THE NAVY COURT OF INQUIRY.
Watch WING TV - ISRAEL'S DELIBERATE ATTACK ON THE U.S.S. LIBERTY
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