"To what state does she belong?" (Answer): "American"Supporting the authenticity of the tape, in 2004 the Jerusalem Post published what it said was a transcript of Israeli military transmissions directing the attack on the USS Liberty. In that transcript, at precisely the same time, 2:14pm, the exchange translated from Hebrew to English is reported:
"Kislev, what country?" (Answer): "Apparently American."[Jerusalem Post archives, "Liberty revisited: the attack," June 4, 2004, by Arieh O'Sullivan, article copy] The Post transcript ends with this transmission. However, the attack continued for another hour and a half. Twenty minutes after the indication of positive identification, an Israeli torpedo boat approaches and fires five torpedoes, one of which hits the starboard bow and nearly sinks the ship. Although the Israeli government maintains to this day that the Liberty was mistaken for an Egyptian ship, the Israeli attack aircraft were unmarked. The Liberty survivors and the many skeptics of Israel's "accident" explanation point out that open warfare was already taking place at the time with Egypt, and there would be no reason to use aircraft with its markings meticulously painted over. The matching timeline substantiates the authenticity of the tape broadcast, as raw audio with subtitled translation, by Al Jazeera America. The match indicates that the tape broadcast by Al Jazeera, and the tape on which the Jerusalem Post based its transcript, are the same. The translated transcript of the raw audio published by the Post was made by a Post reporter who was allowed to listen to the tape. Even prior to the attack, Israeli military personnel are heard questioning whether the ship was American, at 1:53pm in the tape. In the Al Jazeera translation of the tape Israeli military personnel are heard saying in an intriguing exchange:
"Is it an American ship?" "What do you mean American?" "No comment."As the torpedo hits 20 minutes after a ground controller acknowledges the ship is American, a voice is heard casually saying:
"The torpedo is talking care of the ship now."In the Jerusalem Post transcript of the tape, no mention is made of a torpedo hitting the ship, although a torpedo hole is clearly visible in the ship's damage. The official Israeli Defense Forces report on the attack acknowledges the launch of torpedoes 25 minutes after the fact that the ship is American is mentioned ("IDF History Report: The Attack on the 'Liberty' Incident.") After the torpedo hits, torpedo boats circle, machine-gunning the ship with armor-piercing projectiles for another 40 minutes. At 3:15 p.m., as lifeboats are lowered into the water, the Israelis pull up at close range and proceed to machine-gun the lifeboats. This is a full hour after confirmation has been given that the ship is American. Sexual innuendo is heard in describing the actions of the Israeli military as the Liberty crew fights fires and tends to the wounded. Thirty-four US sailors were killed. As the attack controllers mull using napalm one asks "Do we screw her?" The Post and Al Jazeera tape are but a small part of the volumes of evidence that Israel knew what it was doing that has yet to be released. Steve Forslundan, who was an intelligence analyst for the 544th Air Reconnaissance Technical Wing at Offutt Air Force Base in Omaha, states that the real-time intelligence he was reading as the day progressed:
"made specific reference to the efforts to direct the jets to the target which was identified as American numerous times by the ground controller. Upon arrival, the aircraft specifically identified the target and mentioned the American flag she was flying. There were frequent operational transmissions from the pilots to the ground base describing the strafing runs. The ground control began asking about the status of the target and whether it was sinking. They stressed that the target must be sunk and leave no trace."
Prior to the airing of "The Day Israel Attacked America," a long list of public figures, including those of highest US military rank, have backed the survivors' contention that the Israelis meant to sink the Liberty knowing full well that the ship was American. These include Secretary of State Dean Rusk, who held that office at the time of the incident, Director of the NSA Admiral Bobby Ray Inman, US Senator Adlai Stevenson, and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Thomas Moorer. Moorer concluded in his own investigation:
"In attacking the USS Liberty, Israel committed acts of murder against U.S. servicemen and an act of war against the United States."Of the Israeli account, Secretary of State Rusk said in his memoirs:
"I didn't believe them then, and I don't believe them to this day."NSA Director Bobby Ray Inman grants an interview in the film. In 2007, in the article "New Revelations in Attack on American Spy Ship," the Chicago Tribune ran interviews of US intelligence officers who were following the Mediterranean radio traffic in real time, who said Israel was deliberately attacking an American ship. Air Force Capt. Richard Block, who was commanding an intelligence wing of more than 100 analysts and cryptologists monitoring Middle Eastern communications on the island of Crete, told the Tribune:
"The pilots said, 'This is an American ship. Do you still want us to attack?' And ground control came back and said, 'Yes, follow orders.'"For its part, the official Israeli report holding that the attack was a "tragic accident" centers around the claim no flags were visible on the ship, which is vociferously denied by the survivors, who say they were flying multiple flags, in a proper breeze for unfurling. The other central Israeli claim is that orders were given that any ship observed traveling above a certain speed, 20 knots, was to be considered a hostile warship. The IDF report states that the Liberty was observed sailing at 28 knots. However, the report itself notes that the Liberty was not capable of such speeds, and calls it "astounding" that two different measurements of the speed were "incorrect" (page 12, IDF History Report.)
As for the "why" of the attack, a non-governmental committee chaired by Admiral Moorer, which included former U.S. ambassador to Saudi Arabia James E. Akins, theorized that the attack was intended to be blamed on Egypt, thereby drawing the US into Israel's Six Day War with Arab states in 1967. Supporting this were the facts that the Israelis clearly wanted the ship to sink, and that they used unmarked fighter aircraft. Coincidentally, according to Admiral Lawrence Geis, who was commander of the US Mediterranean fleet on that day, the Sixth Fleet was undergoing a nuclear-armed drill at the time, in which warplanes were armed with live nuclear weapons. Geis said that he was ordered by Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara to recall flights of US fighter aircraft sent to assist the Liberty, twice, because President Lyndon B. Johnson in fact wanted the Liberty to sink, with all hands. It is speculated that Johnson then would have sent nuclear-tipped bombers into Egypt to retaliate for the sinking of the Liberty. USS Liberty survivors still hold a commemoration event in Washington DC every year, and have pledged to try to continue to as long as any of them remain alive. The film is briskly-paced, with interviews of the survivors taking center stage. The interviews recall harrowing moments as the Israeli Air Force and Navy conducted its organized and prolonged attack, after many previous hours of low-pass flyover surveillance in which Israeli pilots flew low enough to actually wave at American sailors. Survivor Larry Weaver recalled an Israeli Air Force Nord 2501 circling the ship, and told former ABC News investigative reporter James Bamford:
"It had a big Star of David on it and it was flying just a little bit above our mast. I was actually able to wave to the co-pilot. He waved back and actually smiled at me - I could see him that well. There's no question about it. They had seen the ship's markings and the American flag. They could damn near see my rank."In charge of the official US Navy Court of Inquiry report which drew the conclusion that the attack was an accident was Admiral John S. McCain, Jr., father of John McCain, the US senator and former presidential candidate. The survivors continue to demand that the government acknowledge that Israel knowingly attacked an American ship.
VIDEO - EN VERSION FRANÇAISE: Le jour où Israël attaqua l'Amérique (documentaire Al Jazeera)
VIDEO - Special Series: The Day Israel Attacked America
(V.F.de : New Evidence Proves Israel Attacked USS Liberty With Orders to Kill 294 Americans)
Via Alterinfo.net
Il n’est pas dans nos habitudes de relayer les articles d’Al Jazeera, mais celui-ci mérite sans doute une exception. En effet, près de 50 ans ont passé depuis l’attaque du navire américain USS Liberty par l’aviation et la flotte israéliennes. Pourtant la version officielle, matérialisée par Wikipedia par exemple, continue de parler de l’"incident du USS Liberty" et de la confusion avec un bateau égyptien. Près de cinq décennies plus tard, commence-t-on à voir poindre quelques éléments de vérité dans les médias "dominants" occidentaux ?
« Voilà
quelques mois, j’ai obtenu une copie d’enregistrements audio des
attaques qui contenaient les conversations entre les pilotes de l’Air
Force israélienne et les contrôleurs à la base aérienne. Ils n’avaient
jamais été diffusés auparavant. Je suis allé parler à Al Jazeera, et
après les avoir longuement étudiés, ils ont commandé le film. »
Richard Beltfield
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« Que voulez-vous dire par ‘américain’ ? »
« No comment »
Lorsque l’équipage du USS Liberty mit ses canots de sauvetage à l’eau pour évacuer le navire, les Israéliens se rapprochèrent pour mieux abattre ces Américains qui essayaient de sauver leurs vies.
- Cette attaque par un allié des États-Unis fut une tentative délibérée de détruire un navire américain et de tuer tout son équipage.
- Elle comprenait le mitraillage des sauveteurs et des canots de sauvetage.
- La Maison-Blanche a délibérément empêché l’U.S. Navy de venir au secours du USS Liverty. C’est la première fois dans l’histoire navale qu’une opération de secours est annulée alors qu’un navire américain est attaqué.
- Les survivants de l’équipage ont par la suite été menacés de procès, d’emprisonnement, ou pire, s’ils parlaient à qui que ce soit de ce qui leur était arrivé, et ont littéralement été « abandonnés par leur propre gouvernement. »
« Les
messages israéliens interceptés le 8 juin 1967 ne laissent la place à
aucun doute sur le fait que la mission des avions et des lance-torpilles
israéliens, alors que la guerre des Six Jours faisait rage au
Moyen-Orient, était précisément de couler l’USS Liberty. Je répète : il
n’y a aucun doute – aucun – que les IDF (Israeli Defense Forces) avaient
pour mission de détruire l’USS Liberty et l’ensemble de son équipage. »
Ancien analyste de la CIA, Ray McGovern
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Aaron Nelson, 10 novembre 2014
Titre original : De nouveaux indices montrent qu’Israël a attaqué le USS Liberty avec pour mission de tuer 294 Américains Traduction : IlFattoQuotidiano.fr
Al Jazeera America diffuse un documentaire accablant pour Israël « Le jour où Israël attaqua les États-Unis » : tel est le titre du documentaire-choc diffusé par l'antenne américaine de la chaîne d'information Al Jazeera. En 1967, durant la Guerre des Six-Jours, l'armée israélienne simula une attaque égyptienne contre un navire américain. Bilan: 34 morts et 174 blessés.
Behind the USS Liberty Cover-up
Maidhc Ó Cathail for Consortium News November 12, 2014
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