Remember the Liberty!
When Israel attacks, the Pentagon retreats
http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=11042
Justin Raimondo May 30, 2007
It was 40 years ago this June 8 that the USS
Liberty - a large, armorless, refitted freighter
that was gathering intelligence in the Mediterranean
at the outset of the Six Day War - was attacked by
Israeli fighter jets and torpedoes. Thirty-four U.S.
sailors were killed, and 172 were wounded. The
Liberty limped back to Malta. A U.S. Navy court of
inquiry was on board investigating the damage,
but - for some reason - the investigators were not
allowed to proceed to Israel to find out what really
went on. Orders from the top echelons of the Pentagon
nixed the inquiry, and today, the families of the
fallen still haven't gotten any answers as to why
Israel was allowed to get away with it without even
so much as a slap on the wrist - nor even any public
acknowledgment that it was a deliberate atta
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