Israel-US conspiracy in six-day war

Thursday June 05, 2003 11:49

by Ali H.

How Israel and the US conspired to attack Egypt during the 1967 war.

The BBC revealed last night that the US had come very close to launching an unprovoked nuclear attack on Egypt (UAR) in 1967.

The pretext for this operation was the attack by unmarked Israeli jets and torpedo boats on the USS Liberty (an NSA spy ship) which was stationed off the Egyptian coast in international waters.

US seamen from the Liberty explained how the boat had been observed from low altitude by 9 Israeli aircraft on the morning before the attack. Finally during the afternoon they were attacked with cannon and missile fire by 3 Israeli fighters whose markings had been obscured.

During the attack the Liberty was unable to transmit an SOS because all of their operating frequencise were being jammed. These operating frequencies were well known as US communications channels to the Israelis according to the seamen leading them to conclude that the attack was pre-meditated and deliberate.

During the initial phase of the attack 8 US seamen were killed and dozens of others were wounded.

But worse was to come, as the Liberty was attacked by Israeli torpedo boats which arrived later. These boats launched multiple torpedos and straffed the boat multiple times, deliberately targeting the ships boiler in order to blow it up and sink it. In addition the Israelis were observed by crewmen as they straffed and sank all of the Liberty's lifeboats.

During the second phase of the attack the death toll rose to 34 and over 70 were seriously injured.

During the gunboat attack the crewmen of the Liberty eventually managed to send a distress signal to the US fleet which was stationed some 500 miles away off Crete.

Rather than dispatching help for the Liberty or calling the Israelis the response of the US fleet commander was to dispatch A4 aircraft armed with nuclear weapons and a Phantom fighter escort to bomb Cairo!

These aircraft were recalled early in their flight by direct order from US secretary for defence McNamara. The aircraft returned and were re-armed with conventional weapons and took off again. At this point when McNamara attempted to recall the aircraft the fleet commander resisted and only gave in and recalled the aircraft on the orders of president Lyndon Johnson himself.

The Liberty was eventually towed to Malta under armed escort and the whole affair was hushed up by the Americans and Israelis, to the extent that the capitain of the Liberty received the congressional medal of honour (the highest military award in the US) behind closed doors (the first and only time this happened in US history).

Evidence brought to light by the BBC showed how the attack on the Liberty formed part of a US inspired plan called project "Cyanide" to attack the UAR (Egypt) and depose president Nasser having failed to do so in 1956 when the Israelis siezed the Suez canal with the help of the British and Frence in another unprovoked attack. The plan was formulated by the secretive 303 comittee in a building close to the White House in such a way as to maintain plausible presedential deniability for Johnson.

The programme revealed that US military involvement with the Israelis was not limited to planning, when photographs of US spy aircraft with Israeli markings were shown on the ground at Israeli airfields in the Negev desert. These same aircraft took the photos which enabled a devastating Israeli surprise attack on Egypt which started the six-day war and destroyed the Egyptian airforce on the ground before it ever got into the air.

Former secretary for defence McNamara and numerous Israeli military figures were asked to comment but refused citing national interest and confidentiality agreements.

During the morning before the attack the communications officers onboard the Liberty had been Israeli military communications including an attack on the Golan heights and massacres of Egyptian soldiers which has lead to claims that the Liberty was attacked to hush up their evidence.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/documentaries/features/dead_in_the_water.shtml
http://hnn.us/comments/8148.html
http://www.desert-voice.net/israeli_attrocities.htm
http://www.powells.com/review/2002_12_26.html
http://ussliberty.org