Secrets of drowning S/S liberty by Israel
Egypt-Israel, History, 8/9/2001

Serious details and secrets were revealed in a book published recently in Britain about the massacres and war crimes committed by Israel against Egyptian prisoners of war (POWs) during 1967 war.

In his new book the "Secrets Hide-out", James Panford unveiled the vagueness on the enigma of destroying the US espionage ship "Liberty" on 8 June 1967, and the blackout which Washington imposed on the accident.

The British author, quoting eyewitnesses, asserted that Israel has destroyed "Liberty" being the one and only witness on the massacres and war crimes committed by Israeli soldiers against Egyptians POWs.

Panford asserted that the ship had records, through the most modern means of watching and bugging, of scene of gathering and firing of more than 60 Egyptian POWs by the wall of a mosque in Al-Arish.

He pointed that the ship was anchoring in front of Al-Arish coast in an espionage mission to monitor the situation on the battlefield, following Israeli offensive against Egypt, Syria, and Jordan.

The British author quoted Richard Smith, the historian of US Navy as saying that Israel had no alternative but drowning "Liberty" with all its secrets and documents that expose its crimes in the 1967 war.

According to the story mentioned by the survivors, the Israeli ships and planes continued to watch the US ship for six hours, then Israeli torpedoes and planes, with no signs, attacked and destroyed, killing 30 US mariners and wounding many others.

The author unmasked the conspiracy cooked in the USA kitchen under President Lindon Johnson to blackout the accident, as Johnson was preparing to enter presidential elections the following year.

The US President was quoted as having said: "I prefer that the ship be drowned instead of embarrassing my allies.''

The author proved that a US espionage plane was over flying the region during the Israeli attack on the ship and recorded the conversation between the Israeli pilots who destroyed the ship and their command center. They were quite aware that "Liberty" was a US ship and not an ordinary one as claimed later by Israel.

The author quoted a top confidential US document asserting that Johnson has given orders to fully drown the ship and not pick it up in order to bury all documents that convict Israeli crimes against Egyptian POWs.

The US authorities at the time prevented the media and journalists from taking photos of the ship, or exploring this accident once against.

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