47th Anniversary of Israeli attack on US servicemen

Brown Bomber

During the Arab-Israeli war Israel attacked the USS Liberty, a communications ship docked in Mediterannian. The attack lasted several hours and israeli killed 34 American crewmembers by first firing rockets from unmarked jets, later sending in gunships in to fire torpedoes, presumably in an attempt to sink the ship which would be necessary for any false-flag attack to be effective. The Israelis then proceeded to machine gun the survivors of the rocked ship.

Even though israel had jammed the signal preventing word of the attack to get out a radio engineer ingeniously got a signal out.

Israel claimed it was an "accident".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYIWP7MjLYA

Brown Bomber

Ignore my ****ty description above. The USS Liberty Veterans Association's is far, far better.

ON JUNE 8, 1967, while patrolling in international waters in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea, USS Liberty (AGTR-5) was savagely attacked without warning or justification by air and naval forces of the state of Israel. Of a crew of 294 officers and men (including three civilians), the ship suffered thirty four (34) killed in action and one hundred seventy three (173) wounded in action. The ship itself, a Forty Million ($40,000,000) Dollar state of the art signals intelligence (SIGINT) platform, was so badly damaged that it never sailed on an operational mission again and was sold in 1970 for $101,666.66 as scrap.

At 1400 hours, while approximately about 17 nautical miles off the northern Sinai coast and about 25 nautical miles northwest of El Arish, USS Liberty’s crew observed three surface radar contacts closing with their position at high speed. A few moments later, the bridge radar crew observed high speed aircraft passing over the surface returns on the same heading. Within a few short moments, and without any warning, Israeli fighter aircraft launched a rocket attack on USS Liberty. The aircraft made repeated firing passes, attacking USS Liberty with rockets and their internal cannons. After the first flight of fighter aircraft had exhausted their ordnance, subsequent flights of Israeli fighter aircraft continued to prosecute the attack with rockets, cannon fire, and napalm.



During the air attack, USS Liberty’s crew had difficulty contacting Sixth Fleet to request assistance due to intense communications jamming The initial targets on the ship were the command bridge, communications antennas, and the four .50 caliber machine guns, placed on the ship to repel boarders. After the Israeli fighter aircraft completed their attacks, three Israeli torpedo boats arrived and began a surface attack about 35 minutes after the start of the air attack. The torpedo boats launched a total of five torpedoes, one of which struck the side of USS Liberty, opposite the ship’s research spaces. Twenty-five Americans, in addition to the nine who had been killed in the earlier air attacks, were killed as a result of this explosion.

faustino1

Good post, BB..didn't even realize today was the anniversary!

Jeff Gates also made a very good assessment of this incident alleging that John McCain's father was instrumental in covering up this deliberate attack.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRx7naNRs5w

ryanrickoshea

This video is pure bull****.

Obviously the Israelis attacked the USS Liberty.

The Israelis tried to blame the Russians and yet Russian Jews are major part of Israel.