| Author | Message | | Jefferson Davis | | Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2007 1:32 am Post subject: Questions remain over 1967 attack on U.S. intelligence ship |
| Questions remain over 1967 attack on U.S. intelligence ship 'Liberty'
Jun. 3, 2007 12:00 AM
We know what some people in the military and what some people in government can do to the truth.
We know this by listening to the military's fabricated account regarding football star turned Army Ranger Pat Tillman.
Contrary to original reports, Tillman - a true American hero by any measure - was, in fact, killed by American forces. This fact was not shared with his family for more than a month, following manufactured tales of Tillman being killed by enemy gunfire while trying to help another group of ambushed soldiers.
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In April, there was a House Oversight and Government Reform hearing on Capitol Hill, where members of Tillman's family eloquently told of their courage and sadness at the treatment they endured.
But, imagine similar outrage and sadness lasting not years but decades. For 40 years, survivors and families of those lost aboard the USS Liberty have been waiting for their chance to sit at a congressional witness table.
Forty years ago, the USS Liberty, an American intelligence-gathering ship, was sailing on a calm, clear day off the Sinai Peninsula. The ship was clearly marked with her name and identification numbers, flying the American flag and cruising in the Mediterranean's international waters.
Without warning or provocation, the ship was attacked by Israeli warplanes with rockets, napalm and machine-gun fire. Israeli boats then attacked the ship with torpedoes and more machine-gun fire.
Thirty-four young American servicemen were killed, and an additional 174 were wounded.
Was the attack deliberate? The late Secretary of State Dean Rusk thought so. So did Clark Clifford, then chairman of the Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, who told President Johnson in a National Security Council meeting that the attack was deliberate. Richard Helms, then chief of the Central Intelligence Agency, and Adm. Thomas Moorer, former Joint Chiefs chairman, insist that the attack could not possibly have been a mistake.
But, if there were violations of international law - including war crimes as the Israelis machine-gunned the Liberty's life rafts - Liberty survivor Joe Meadors suggests there were also violations of U.S. law, pointing to the fact that a flight of rescue aircraft was launched from the Saratoga within minutes of the start of the attack on the U.S. ship.
"For reasons yet to be explained, those aircraft were recalled," Meadors notes. "The attack on the USS Liberty continued for at least another 90 minutes while personnel on the USS Saratoga and elsewhere listened to but ignored our radio calls for assistance."
That action is a capital violation of the Uniform Code of Military Justice.
But, there has never been a congressional investigation. Not one.
The only American government investigation of any kind was the U.S. Navy Court of Inquiry in 1967, which examined only the performance of the crew and the adequacy of communications, avoiding entirely the question of whether the attack was deliberate.
"Our family will never be satisfied. We'll never have Pat back," Pat Tillman's mother testified at the Tillman hearing. "Something really awful happened. It's your job to find out what happened to him."
Forty years later, the crew of the USS Liberty and the families of those lost, still wait for Congress to do its job, still wait for the truth of what happened on that awful day on June 8, 1967.
Mark Genrich is a retired award-winning journalist who now works with corporate communications in Arizona. | |  | | Cowboy | | | | Jefferson Davis | | Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2007 5:57 am Post subject: |
| You are what you are Mr. AIPAC like all Jewish neocons.
 | | | | Cowboy | | | | Jefferson Davis | | Posted: Sat Jun 09, 2007 6:59 am Post subject: |
| Avoiding and diverting as usual Mr. AIPAC. It's all you do.
Please die soon. | | | | Cowboy | | Posted: Sat Jun 09, 2007 7:03 am Post subject: |
| | I avoid nothing. The questions have been investigated. | | | | Jefferson Davis | | Posted: Sat Jun 09, 2007 7:21 am Post subject: |
| Avoiding and diverting as usual Mr. AIPAC. It's all you do.
Please die soon. | | | | Cowboy | | | | Jefferson Davis | | Posted: Sat Jun 09, 2007 7:07 pm Post subject: |
| Why weren't the crew and survivors of the USS Liberty invited to these investigations? They weren't.
Because it's all fiction.
| | | | Cowboy | | Posted: Sun Jun 10, 2007 4:20 am Post subject: |
| The hearings are documented fact.
So is this...
Proceedings of the U.S. Navy Court of Inquiry, 18 June 1967
http://www.usslibertyinquiry.com/evidence/usreports/ncoi.pdf
Are you claiming that the Liberty crewmembers lied under oath?
It is you, the proven fake American, who refuses to make a clear, definitive statement that the USS Liberty crewmembers did not lie under oath. | | | | | ©2002-2009 WarWithoutEnd.co.uk |
