Home : WRH Store : WRH Index : Reader Letters : Archives : Advertise : Donate BBC Documentary on the USS Liberty: Dead in the Water If it was an accident, it was the best planned accident Ive ever heard of - USS Liberty survivor Cover-Up Alleged in Probe of USS Liberty A former Navy attorney who helped lead the military investigation of the 1967 Israeli attack on the USS Liberty that killed 34 American servicemen says former President Lyndon Johnson and his defense secretary, Robert McNamara, ordered that the inquiry conclude the incident was an accident. In a signed affidavit released at a Capitol Hill news conference, retired Capt. Ward Boston said Johnson and McNamara told those heading the Navys inquiry to conclude that the attack was a case of mistaken identity despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary. It was “one of the classic all-American cover-ups,” said retired Admiral Thomas Moorer, a former Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman who spent a year investigating the attack as part of an independent panel he formed with other former military officials. The panel also included a former US ambassador to Saudi Arabia, James Akins. Torpedo hole in USS Liberty “Why would our government put Israel’s interests ahead of our own?” Moorer asked from his wheelchair at the news conference. He was chief of naval operations at the time of the attack. Moorer, who has long held that the attack was a deliberate act, wants Congress to investigate. [Newsday] Israel claims the USS Liberty was mistaken for the out-of-service Egyptian horse carrier El Quseir - can you spot the difference? El Quseir USS Liberty According to a 1981 NSA report on the incident, the El Quseir was approximately one-quarter of the Libertys tonnage, about one-half its length, and offered a radically different silhouette. Photos of attack on USS Liberty Click images for full sized photos The assault was initiated by French-built high performance Mirage jets armed with cannons and rockets After the ship was disabled by aircraft cannon, rockets and napalm, Israeli torpedo boats were sent in Crews mess hall used as an emergency room Liberty deck crew resting after recovering bodies of shipmates 30mm cannon holes GTR 5 USS Liberty 30mm cannon holes GTR 5 USS Liberty 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. Later, a dual-citizen Israeli major told survivors that he was in an Israeli war room where he heard that pilots radio report. The attacking pilots and everyone in the Israeli war room knew that they were attacking an American ship, the major said. He recanted the statement only after he received threatening phone calls from Israel. The pilots protests also were heard by radio monitors in the U.S. Embassy in Lebanon. Then-U.S. Ambassador to Lebanon Dwight Porter has confirmed this. Porter told his story to syndicated columnists Rowland Evans and Robert Novak and offered to submit to further questioning by authorities. Unfortunately, no one in the U.S. government has any interest in hearing these first-person accounts of Israeli treachery. [Washington Report] Then, inexplicably, at 2 p.m., unmarked Israeli aircraft began attacking the ship. [Ledger Enquirer] Israel attacked the USS Liberty using UNMARKED AIRCRAFT. This is the single fact which proves Israel knew exactly who they were attacking. Israels story is that they thought USS Liberty was an Egyptian ship and therefore a legitimate target of war. Were that true, there would be no reason to attack a supposedly Egyptian ship with unmarked aircraft. The only possible reason to use unmarked aircraft to attack the ship is that Israel knew it was an American ship and intended to sink it, then to blame the attack on Egypt. Moorer, who as top legal council to the official investigation is in a position to know, agrees that Israel intended to sink the USS Liberty and blame Egypt for it, thus dragging the United States into a war on Israels behalf. This seems to be a common trick of Israel. Starting with the Lavon affair, through the USS Liberty, to the fake radio transmitter that tricked Reagan into attacking Libya, to potentially 9-11 itself, Israels game is to frame Arabs and set them up as targets for the United States. The official US investigation is discredited. And with it, every claim of innocence for Israel that relied on the official investigation as a source. The real question facing the American people is why the US Government seems more concerned with protecting Israel after they are caught playing these dirty tricks, rather than doing something to convince Israel not to kill any more Americans. Evidence linking these Israelis to 9/11 is classified. I cannot tell you about evidence that has been gathered. Its classified information. -- US official quoted in Carl Camerons Fox News report on the Israeli spy ring and its connections to 9-11.
Posted on: Tue, 13 Jan 2015 20:59:25 +0000
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