Israeli Attack on the USS Liberty: 42nd Anniversary
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On June 8, 1967, Israeli forces knowingly attacked an American intelligence ship off the coast of Egypt. Thirty-four Americans were killed.
The Johnson administration responded by rushing to coverup the facts.
James Bamford, author of Body of Secrets, has unearthed massive evidence proving that the Israelis had definitely identified the ship as American before they sought to destroy it.
The fact that many of the files and tapes relating to the attack on the USS Liberty are still kept under wraps illustrates how truth has scant chance in DC – if some major interest group is profiting from official lies.
Former CIA analyst Ray McGovern had an excellent article on Counterpunch last week on the belated award of a silver star to Terry Halbardier, a Navy seaman who prevented the Israelis from finishing off the USS Liberty and all its crew. Scott Horton of Antiwar.com Radio interviewed McGovern; the MP3 file is here.
Here is a link to the Anti-Defamation League’s page on the bigots and conspiracy nuts who refuse to accept the Official Story.
Filed under: Foreign policy, Scandal, War
Thank you for taking the time to mention the USS Liberty on the 42nd anniversary of that attack. There’s been almost no mention in the MSM http://news.google.com/news?um=1&ned=us&hl=en&q=%22uss+liberty%22&cf=all&scoring=n , save for a blurb by the UPI in its ‘Odd Almanac’ and a few editorials/stories, some dealing with a new book that’s out.
Whether or not this attack was deliberate (I believe it was deliberate, for the record), every American should know about this anniversary. Every American should know of these men and the heroic efforts they put forth to keep that ship afloat. That’s the bottom line.
This case, the coverup by our government, and the outright silence by our media is the definitive proof that not only does there exist an Israeli lobby in the US, but that it has this country by the cojones.
Some of my relatives fought in the Battle of Somme, Battle of the Bulge, survived Pearl Harbor, Gallipoli, and Viet Nam. I can’t imagine that they would be treated the way this government and our media treat the Liberty victims and survivors – simply on account of who was doing the attacking. It is unconscionable.
May I live to see the day when most Americans DO know of this case, and when those men aboard that fateful day are given the respect and kudos they deserve. And may justice prevail.