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10-27-2007 7:46 PM
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The pilot’s protests also were heard by radio monitors in the U.S. Embassy in Lebanon. Then-U.S. Ambassador to Lebanon Dwight Porter has confirmed this. Porter told his story to syndicated columnists Rowland Evans and Robert Novak and offered to submit to further questioning by authorities. Unfortunately, no one in the U.S. government has any interest in hearing these first-person accounts of Israeli treachery.
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Attacked by the Jewish state for over an hour with more than 800 rockets, tens of thousands of armor-piercing shells, napalm and 5 torpedoes. As a result of Israel’s actions 34 American men died, 171 were wounded, and what’s worse is the fact tha...
10-27-2007 7:55 PM
righthand
The Liberty was then left “dead in the water,” without any assistance for over 16 hours.
Stated this way, it is misleading. There was no deliberate attempt not to aid all the wounded. The real question here is why the Liberty was so far from cover. There can only be BAD reasons why it had not at least a destroyer as cover but that would have prevented an attack in the first place.

It must be remember that the ship was about the only one incapable of defending itself. It was an old WW2 tub fitted for intelligence gathering only.

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