June 8th marks forty years since the Israeli assault on the USS Liberty

intangible child · 06-05-2007, 10:49 PM

This day also marks two years since the USS Liberty Veterans Association formally presented its report War Crimes Committed Against U. S. Military Personnel, June 8, 1967 to the Secretary of the Army in his capacity as Executive Agent for the Secretary of Defense.

The USS Liberty Veterans Association has filed a formal
Report with the Department of Defense of War Crimes Committed Against U.S. Military Personnel on June 8, 1967,
by elements of the Israeli military forces.

On June 8, 1967 while patrolling in international waters[2] 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.[3]

Of a crew of 294 officers and men[4] (including three civilians)[5], the ship suffered thirty four (34) killed in action and one hundred seventy three (173) wounded in action.[6] 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[7]
War Crimes Committed Against U.S. Military Personnel, June 8, 1967

kitu · 08-21-2007, 09:37 AM

it wasnt comitted by just the isrealis mate the pentagon was in on it too they had planes ready tanked up to fly and bomd eygyt who were going to get the blame for the blatant attack on a american navel warship unfortunatly the crew and the ship were just too good to die as they should have and the ruskies had a spy ship watching so the plan went awry it was you not your isreali puppets who killed your own service men read the thread on americans loving american dead