Ali Ataie – USS Liberty When Israel attacked an American Ship in 1967 on the High Seas

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Speaker 1 describes the attack on the USS Liberty by Israeli pilots and the American government, which was a coordinated attack from the air and sea. The American pilots fired at the ship from above and Israeli missile boats fired torpedoes from below. The cause of the attack is believed to be the Columbia-class Columbia ship, which was listening in on Israel's war plans.

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			In the midst of the war on June
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			8, 1967,
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			Israel attacked the USS Liberty, an unarmed American
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			naval ship in international waters flying the American
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			flag.
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			It was a coordinated attack from the air
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			and sea. The Liberty was identified by Israeli
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			pilots as being American. There is no doubt
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			about this. This was not mistaken identity. There
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			are recordings.
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			Despite clearly identifying the ship as American by
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			reading out the ship's whole number and seeing
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			the American flag, Israeli pilots fired at the
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			ship from above from above,
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			and Israeli missile boats fired torpedoes from below.
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			34 American sailors were killed, another 174 injured.
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			The American government tried to cover this up.
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			They tried to hide this event from the
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			press and the American public. Why their greatest
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			ally in the Middle East intentionally
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			and callously attacked them? The most likely reason
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			is that the USS Liberty
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			was a spy ship.
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			And as a spy ship, it was listening
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			in on Israel's war plans.
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			Israel didn't like that, so they tried to
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			massacre everyone on the ship.