Part 1 of the series USS Liberty: “It is God who at sea”
These are the events of that day we call 9 / 11 that the woman doctor spoiled awakened to the fact that people on the ground in the world hated the U.S. until they can target and kill innocent Americans.
I do not react with fear, but curiosity. I did not buy that President Bush has encouraged all of us if we wanted to help. I wanted to answer my questions and the MSM was not asked, and Congress has not demanding.
Seven years ago I was a type uninformed, misinformed American, but with all the diligence and perseverance, I learned a lot. But it was only in June 2005 and my first trip to the little town of Bethlehem: occupied territory had to take my anger against the Empire, the U.S. military occupation of Palestine, the loyalty of the government of Israel.
Only the termination of weapons of mass destruction of Israel, Mordechai Vanunu program have told me things I had never heard before, I wake up to the depth of the disappointment of America “best allies” and blind collusion of the U.S. government. It was a rooftop restaurant in East Jerusalem, where they serve the fish with the head and skeleton intact and fries on the side, that Vanunu blew my mind, “Did you know that President Kennedy to Israel to make nuclear weapons to stop trying? In 1963, he forced Prime Minister Ben Gurion to admit the Dimona is not a textile factory, a sign outside proclaimed, but a nuclear plant. The Prime Minister said: “The reactor is only for peace. ” Kennedy insisted on an open internal inspection. He letters demanding that Ben Gurion open the Dimona for inspection in writing. When Johnson became president, he made an agreement with Israel that two senators come every year for inspection. Before visiting senators, is that the Israelis build a wall to block the elevators and stairs underground. From 1963 to ‘69, came the Senators, but she never knew about the wall that hid the rest of the Dimona from them. ”
It was not until October 13, 2007, when Phil Tourney, survivor of the boatswain and the attack on the USS Liberty has confirmed that “God was that we have in life” to “more wars for Israel “Conference in Irvine, California, I woke up to that day in infamy forty years ago, which remains” the only incident of damage to a major U.S. ship since the sinking of the USS Maine in Havana Harbor in 1898, before the Spanish-American War, not by the U.S. Congress to investigate. “Captain Joseph Tully, commander of the USS Saratoga, page 175, Operation Cyanide, by Peter Hounam .
On November 2, 2007, I spoke by phone with his colleague from Florida, a survivor of the USS Liberty, and the current president of the USS Liberty Veterans Association’S, Ernie Gallo, who was a master of communication and technicians on freedom. We shared our frustrations and justice for freedom by invoking professing Christians and our Republican Senator Mel Martinez.
Ernie quipped: “I met a lawyer Martinez and let me tell you that Congress does not move a finger to help us.” AIPAC would crucify them, our government is not blocking has come say something about freedom.
For forty years our government has a denial of justice to our veterans and crucified, because the truth: “We will not make an ally in trouble.”-President Lyndon Johnson, June 8, 1967.
Forty years ago, the U.S. government has agreed with Israel not only in treason cover up the attack on the USS Liberty survivors have been “asked to remain under the threat of court martial, imprisonment or worse silence … The U.S. government has never asked for forgiveness obviously fake Israeli “mistaken identity” and did not try to get coverage up to dishonorable who were still current. truth the honor of America shamefully sacrificed to cover the lies of Israel and transparently despicable act of perfidy to offer .- Phillip F. Tourney, President USS Liberty Veterans Association, June 8, 2007, Marriott Courtyard, VA .
Veterans of the USS Liberty, an open panel repeated independent investigation of the unprovoked and horrific attack on them and only pro-forma letters received by an employee at the White House in this administration said that the attack already been requested examined.
“This is a naked-lie!” Tournament wrote in a postscript to our commander in chief in his last appeal.
“The declassification of government documents and the recollections of former military … have shown [that] the Israelis knew that the attack on a U.S. warship. The documents also suggest that the U.S. government, anxious to spare Israel’s reputation and preserve its alliance with the United States, closed the case with what even some of the participants now say, a hasty and wrong has been studied seriously. -
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“Israel has come with murder in cold blood” Forty years ago the CIA and NSA all threatened the survivors not to talk! Me so scared, I’m not twenty years … Israel wanted the world believe that Egypt [committed the crime] … Thirty-four were killed and 172 were from a crew of 294 … The Israeli planes violated marked the star of David, we would not know who attacked us, was … Our keel was broken, we would have sunk but God kept us alive … Eighteen hours after the attack we were rescued … McNamara said: “We did not attack our allies.” As McNamara know who attacked us? “- Phillip tournament, October 13, 2007.
“JQ” Tony “Hart, then a chief petty officer, in a relay station U.S. Navy in Morocco, at the communication between Washington and the 6th Fleet, listening remembered as secretary Defense Robert McNamara, in Washington, ordered Rear-Admiral Lawrence Geis cons, America’s battle group commander, bringing to the jets home. When Geis protested that the Liberty was attacked and needed help, said Hart, McNamara retorted that “President [Lyndon Johnson] does not go to war or embarrass an ally of the United States on a couple of sailors.”
“The Johnson administration not publicly challenged the right of Israel that the attack was nothing more to be a fatal mistake. But internal White House documents from the Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library show that the Israelis’ explanation of how the error had not occurred obtained previously thought. In addition to McNamara, senior officials of the Secretary of State Dean Rusk on down privately with the intelligence adviser Johnson, Clark Clifford, who said a few minutes a meeting National Security Council staff was cited as an agreement to “unthinkable” that the attack was a case of mistaken identity. “The attack could only be voluntary,” the director of NSA, Lt. Gen. Marshall Carter, later told Congress. [Ibid]
Ernie Gallo had been above the water line, that freedom torpedo struck and he told this reporter: “It was a beautiful sunny day and clear all morning Israeli reconnaissance plane flew over us, I I counted twelve in Flight and I came so close they could see the faces of the pilots we were restless and he dipped his wings in passing. We were all very comfortable, because they were our allies. This morning, Captain McGonagle called drill a general ward. This is a particular type of urgent establishment, I can not remember what was piercing comedy, but to test our skills and the captain was very happy. Because we were on dangerous ground he kept the Gunners Manning the machine gun, two guys in each “nest”, which was unusual for them to stay in flak jackets and helmets for heavy drilling, but we knew that we were at home in hostile territory. But we all, boys are sunbathing and we were all happy because we saw our friends the Israelis in the sky. We were all very relaxed because of its flights, it was like a scene McCales Navy.
“It was about half past one after lunch, when the markers had attacked us and they knew to be the case, the communication antennas! They knew that guns are not a threat, the pilots were very careful to Antennas to cast. Then two napalm bombs on us, miraculously the fire completely put out, and although the fire hoses mounted bullet, like a garden hose and any CO2 cartridge was used board that the fire could have easily entered the boat, but firefighters kept cool and not to do. A flagman constantly observed, that our flag was hoisted, the first burned in the fire, but within minutes it raised his flag and leave our boat was well marked by the USS LIBERTY on it.
“It was the torpedo boats came towards us, I saw the Star of David again. But the Israelis say mistaken identity for giving us the little-known El Quseir, an Egyptian transport ship that only carried horses [and was a third the size of Freedom] and was contained and the use for one year. Freedom was at least forty antenna nor Israel have made a mistake when we identify, if ever heard in a court, it would be incredible!
“I was a ghost,” an Interceptor, CT; Communication technician. At that time, the NSA security groups in all branches of military service. Normal operation was only for four months at a time, up and down along the African coast, all around in the atmosphere, the waves, I would be guarded. The CT had a variety of talents, administrators, linguists, Morse code operators, communicators and experts in electronics, that’s what I did was work all the equipment.
“We all worked behind closed doors, locked doors, no one knew the rest of the team at all, as we did. Our goal with everything in life was to intercept the message, UHF, LHF, waves long and short. There were two huge Christmas tree antennas on freedom. Mid-ship there was a pedestal with a flat foot has made sixteen ski resorts. How could they take us for a horse carrying ship is incredible .
“You know that if the North Koreans attacked the Pueblo, they wanted to take it? The North Koreans have had the opportunity to perform on several occasions. The Israelis did not give us one! Could Each torpedo approached and asked us to surrender or they follow, but never took place.
“The most wonderful, I honestly believe the Lord has saved liberty for a reason, and was at that time in the world … The ship, built in 1944, freedom was a converted cargo ship and the mechanics of ship must have broken and sunk! sunk a foot or less of those torpedo hit and would we! But the torpedo hit a double, and energy absorption reinforcement and took us by air to blow. ”
In 1967, John Hrankowski, was nineteen years and his third trip to freedom. “I worked in the engineering department, responsible for air conditioning, electricity, water and steam. I was topside from scratch, when the rays of shrapnel knocked me down. I returned to my headquarters space in the boiler room when the call was: “This is not an exercise, we are attacked.”
“Fifteen meters and reached the torpedo struck the vessel from the water, if it had hit the tank mix the vapor pressure of 750 degrees in cold water like a torpedo exploded nuclear bomb would have been!
“The lights went out, the generator was struck, gnats flying around me like fire, it was dangerous, but beautiful anyway. I worked with a lantern to keep themselves in power under control. If the boiler exploded, the ship would have crashed to! ”
One of the men who was below the water surface when the torpedo was hit Ron Kukal that the chaplain of the USS Liberty Vets Association. In an e-mail me at October 22, 2007, he said: “The June 8, 1967, during the Vietnam War, I was aboard a Navy ship named the USS Liberty. The ship was decommissioned in the waters off the coast of Israel during the Six Day War “… It may be that the only reason God saved the freedom we had to tell our story.
“The ship was 15 miles off the coast of navigation in international waters when the IDF’s attack. She was subjected to torpedoes, fire 50-caliber machine guns, napalm and rockets. There are more than 800 holes were in custody after the attack, she announced about 10 degrees to starboard, and was on fire in many places. Thirty-four men were killed and nearly 70% of the crew injured, including myself.
“For what seemed like an eternity … many miracles occurred during and after the attack. The only weapons we had were 50 caliber machine guns, and they were built as the French Mirage Peashooter cons that attacked Liberty … we were not ready for any type of attack at all. The element of surprise to them.
“I had survived the attack, but the worst was yet to come, as five torpedo boats were bearing down on us, with one in the head, and we were on the ground. One found its mark. It was the second surprise that I was exposed that day, the first survivors of the attack by jet aircraft.
“The success rate of Liberty near amidships on the starboard side torpedo and I was about ten meters from the explosion. There were a couple of walls between the blast and for me, but they were such as paper, several tonnes of TNT, which tore the guts of Liberty. What had been a number of topics have been turned into a large room in no time. I was immediately immersed in seawater, and he was quickly to the point where it would be my head in a short period of time, and although I could be swimming will soon be full, and there would be no place to go . The trap, which was closed on the bridge, and persistent downward, and if my life was completely back to what God would do. Just before the compartment was open the hatch was flooded over me, opened to leave as many of us as possible out of there before we become part of his tomb. This was the third miracle that I saw that day, but there was more to come, and I was getting on the main deck, I slipped and because water and blood, which was flooded in each round.
“The miracle happened when I fourth was exposed to machine gun on the main deck, and yet still remained alive, and there was more to come. Every antenna we had was shot to pieces, except one, and it was never really works well. One of the radio operator told me he has tried repeatedly to call for help, and finally, when he noticed that all the antennas have been shot, he who had always been wrong, and when necessary, it worked. You could call the Sixth Fleet, and inform them of our situation through an antenna, which had almost never worked. The fifth miracle had occurred.
“The attack was two hours or more left, but it seems that few minutes. The captain told us we had lost our seats, we would have to go back and manually steer the ship. We have make progress and were completed on time for the island of Malta, and the dry dock. He was abducted nearly a thousand miles, and we were with a ship that was forty feet of forty hole in its side, fire, and full of holes.
“Freedom has been set at one minute, but we could be one thousand miles of sailing without incident, and it was the wonder of the sixth day. I was part of the crew who went down there to identify the deceased and I know that God gave me the strength to go and do what was expected of me. Suffice it to say rather than in terms that only men have been strengthened, and God himself could enter the dark area below.
“For there is nothing hidden that will not be obvious, not hidden that is not known.” Luke 0:02 -
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Operation Cyanide, Peter Hounam, 2003