| Author | Message | | Jefferson Davis | | Posted: Sun Jun 03, 2007 6:52 am Post subject: American public to honor U.S.S. Liberty vets |
| American public to honor U.S.S. Liberty vets
2007-06-02
Washington — Americans will gather in Washington on June 8th at 4:00 p.m. at the Navy Memorial Plaza on Pennsylvania Avenue to honor U.S.S. Liberty veterans on the 40th anniversary of Israel's unprovoked attack on their ship.
The American intelligence ship sustained 70 percent casualties but remained afloat due to the heroic actions of its crew after Israel's two-hour attack. Thirty-four sailors and marines were killed and 172 wounded in the heaviest attack on an American ship since World War II.
According to the Department of the Navy, the only official American government investigation of the event was a 1967 Navy Court of Inquiry that found the attack to be a case of "mistaken identity." That hastily conducted investigation has since been discredited by its chief attorney, Captain Ward Boston, as a cover-up ordered by the Johnson White House.
"It was a political thing. We were ordered to 'put a lid on it.' The facts were clear. Israel knew it was an American ship and tried to sink it and murder the entire crew. The outrageous claims by Israel's apologists who continue to claim the attack was a mistake pushed me to speak out. The official record is not the one I certified," said Boston, a former FBI agent. "My initials are not on it."
According to senior naval officers, Johnson personally ordered the Navy to recall its aircraft and cancel its rescue mission while the Liberty was still under attack by Israeli forces before ordering the cover-up (www.ussliberty.org).
Senior military, diplomatic, and intelligence officials have long held that the magnitude and duration of the coordinated attack by combined air and naval forces on the easily recognizable ship precluded any possibility that it was a mistake. In 2003, an independent commission headed by former Joint Chiefs Chairman Admiral Thomas Moorer concluded the attack was deliberate.
Israeli aircraft had closely studied the clearly marked American ship in international waters flying a large American flag for more than eight hours prior to the two-hour attack. With massive radio antennae, including a large satellite dish, the ship's profile made it one of the most easily identifiable ships afloat. Additionally, attacking aircraft jammed all five of the ship's American emergency radio channels and Israeli torpedo boats machine-gunned at close range life rafts that had been lowered to rescue the most-seriously wounded. [See "Findings of the Independent Commission of Inquiry," Congressional Record, October 11, 2004, Vol. 150, No. 130, E1886 to E1889].
Liberty survivors, many disabled, their bodies still carrying pieces of shrapnel in a daily reminder of the attack, are now senior citizens. Never permitted to publicly testify by the Navy or Congress, these veterans have been seeking an honest official investigation for 40 years. Pursuant to recent federal enactments, they filed a war crimes report with theSecretary of the Defense in 2005.
Israeli Embassy Newsletter ? | |  | | DanielDives | | Posted: Sun Jun 03, 2007 7:45 am Post subject: |
| <<<<<<< Benjamin Grob, it was also reported, gave "$250 to the anti-Semitic Christian Nationalist Crusade in 1965, federal records show."
The resolution, like the naming of the library itself, is nice if it is meant solely as a reminder of the fact that good men died in a horrible way.
But context can't be ignored any more today than when the Grobs - out of the blue - named the library. >>>>>>>
 | | | | Jefferson Davis | | Posted: Sun Jun 03, 2007 8:25 am Post subject: |
| The Jewish/corporate owned media and the apologists cannot allow the story of the USS Liberty to ever see the "mainstream light of day". It would connect a thousand dots and they know this all too well. Look at Cowboy's behavior and his determination to diminish the crew of the USS Liberty' claims of injustice at all cost.
But truth prevails and always will. | | | | dangerousdna | | Posted: Sun Jun 03, 2007 2:35 pm Post subject: |
| CB's behavior is sickening n disgusting - a new person to the forum would see him as an Israeli - he thinks n acts like one coz you wouldn't think a fellow American would stoop that low to discredit American veterans of war who survived such a heinous attack by a so-called ally
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