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Israel attacked a us navy ship 45 years ago killing dozens ofsailors — survivors want to know why by ferujkll sdff
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Israel attacked a us navy ship 45 years ago killing dozens ofsailors — survivors want to know why by FERUJKLL SDFF
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It's understandable if you've never heard of the USS Liberty andthe more than 200 sailors who were wounded and lost their lives theday she was attacked in the summer of 1967. That was the Summer of Love, when nearly 100,000 American youthdescended on Haight Ashbury in San Francisco, and the Vietnam Warwas really getting into the ugly abyss it would become. Nearly13,000 American's died in the jungle in 1967, less than half thenumber who would fall in 1968. So, it's understandable if amid all that carnage, loss, andrevolution the lives of a couple hundred Liberty sailors fell tothe heap of history and were forgotten.
What's still not understandable is why the Liberty was ambushed byIsraeli gunships, that efforts to rescue dying sailors were calledoff, and a massive cover-up trailed the incident's wake. Elizabeth Flock at U.S. News reminds us of the incident in a piece honoring this Friday'sLiberty memorial service to be held at Arlington National Cemeteryin D.C. Flock points to lingering outrage and concern of a cover up thathas prompted a Facebook page asking people to sign a petition calling for a renewedinvestigation of the incident, which apparently went down somethinglike this: Three days into Israel's Six-Day War , the Liberty was parked off the coast of Egypt collectingcommunication signals in international waters. While initially some concern was given to the ship's getting tooclose to shore, or mistaken for an enemy vessel, those misgivingsseem to have vanished when Israeli planes flew in for a visualinspection at about 6:00 a.m.
local time — as the mist wasstill burning off the surface of the Mediterranean. American sailors say the Israeli aircraft flew so close to theLiberty that they rattled the its steel plating while the ship'screw waved to the planes pilots, who did the same in return. All morning and into the afternoon, the Liberty went about hermission unmolested when at 1:40 p.m., unknown to the Liberty crew,an Israel torpedo boat reported an "unknown vessel" traveling atspeeds only attributable to warships. Twenty minutes later a pair of Mirage II fighters rattled down overthe Liberty and made two visual inspection passes at 3,000 feet.The Mirage pilots radioed command that the ship looked like anon-Israeli destroyer, and orders came back over the airwaves toattack. The Liberty's command knew the planes were Israeli so the ship'screw were all on "stand down" mode, non-defensive, with no helmetsor even life jackets at the ready.
The twin Mirage's pounded the Liberty with all the cannons,rockets, and bombs at their disposal during three separate runs.When they depleted their ammunition they were replaced by twoDassault Mysteres filled with napalm bombs that tore into theLiberty, engulfing it in a raging inferno from the bridge to thedeck. When it was all over 34 sailors were dead, 174 were injured andIsrael claimed they'd mistaken America's most distinctive ship foran Egyptian horse-cavalry transport half the Liberty's size with a completely different profile . Israel apologized, made reparations to the U.S. and the sailor'sfamilies, and then according to many — the incident was swept under the rug and a whitewashing of the facts came in to preserve Israel's reputation A letter to Congress from USS Liberty veterans, asking for the renewed investigation,also says that rescue efforts to save the Liberty's crew weresomehow called off, and that makes even less sense to them thananything else about the whole, tragic, and nearly forgotten fiasco. The most detailed version of the incident and all that followed may be found here in the NSA's de-classified documents. I am a professional writer from Circuit Breakers, which contains a great deal of information about satin thong panties , silk glove liners, welcome to visit!
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