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Originally Posted by Looger
let's put aside documentaries on it on the american history channel, hundreds of personal accounts, and the historical record.
http://www.ussliberty.org/report/report.htm
Survivors also report that the torpedo boat crews fired on the inflated life boats launched by the crew after the captain gave the order "prepare to abandon ship."This order had to be rescinded because the crew was unable to stand on the main deck without being fired upon and the life rafts were destroyed as they were launched.
the amount of information available on the USS liberty is totally prolific, i'm shocked that more people don't know aboot it - it's a big deal.
israel has a huge history of false flag operations, and not just the king david hotel bombing and abu nidal.
do you have a source on germany invading poland in 1939? because that's at the same stage of accepted information as the USS liberty attack. books, documentaries, historical record, personal accounts, veterans organizations, war crimes documents, geez even dean rusk, the US secretary of state at the time was vocal aboot it.
unreal.
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Not to get involved in this debate, however there are some other things that should be published here.
1) Israel asked the U.S. navy if it had any ships in the area, the Navy denied that there were any ships in the area. Israel sent a message declaring any vessels to be within 100 miles of the Sinai coast to be within the maritime exclusion zone. Israel also warned that it would defend its coast line.
2) Israel went to U.S. naval attache Ernest Castle that it would defend its coast and sink any unidentified vessels, and that the American's should either identify thier ships or remove them. The American Navy didn't disclose any information on the Liberty.
3) After the Air Attack, the Israel Navy dispatched three torpedo boats to investigate a ship with Western markings and they dispatched two helicopters for search and rescue. Yitzak Rabin also order the Torpedo boats to hold fire until a positive identification could be made.
4) Cmdr Mcgonagle of the Liberty saw the three torpedo boats approaching and order that they be engaged with a machine gun. He then ordered a cease fire after several shots when he saw the Israel Naval ensign, and saw a attempt at communication by the lead torpedo boats signal lamp. The order was misunderstood, and the Liberty continued to engage the torpedo boats with two heavy machine guns. The Torpedo boats fired two torpedo's, one struck forward of the superstructure exploding into a cargo area causing most of the causualties.
The Israeli boats then engaged the survivors (which in my mind was a terrible wrong). However this claim is still in dispute by witnesses on the torpedo boats, and the lack of an entry into the captains log.
After the attack, and after the boats identity was confirmed, Israel's torpedo boats offered to assist in the search and rescue which was refused by the Americans.
The attack on the U.S.S. Liberty was caused by a gross breakdown in communications between the U.S. and Israel, and between the Captain of the Liberty and its crew, and between the commander of the Torpedo floatilla and thier chain of command.
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One thing that was missing from the story, but has been confirmed by other sources is that after the air attack.