USS Liberty: Accident or Cover-up?

[Felix_Nietzsche]

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1. Keep secret that Israel was about to widen the war by attacking Syria -- thus preventing the US from interfering.

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Nonsense....
a. This ship was near Egypt not Syria. If it was to gather intelligence on a possible attack on Syria should it not have been near Syria rather than Egypt.
b. How is single spy ship going to detect to determine gather intelligence on the activities of military units on land? A ship can not see armies unless they are on the beach. As for radio transmissions, a disciplined army like the Israelis would have tight control over the radio traffic as not to telegraph an upcoming attack.
c. Why would Israel give a [censored] if the USA knew they where going to launch an offensive against Syria at all? Before the 6 day war, Syria was shelling Israeli town along their border. Israel was going to take action against the Syrians.....this was no secret. The only secret was WHEN they would take action.

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2. Keeping secret the concurrent massacre of Egyptian POWs a few miles away. (I doubt this one.)


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A spy ship can not SEE inland. It certainly can not determine whether prisoners are being executed. This explanation is a complete joke....

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3. Some compelling secret reasons that no one has fathomed.

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Ahhhhhh......complete conspiracy masculine bovine excrement. The advantage of this explanation is it can't be refuted because no explantion is given......

From the wiki article:
"On June 4, 1967, the day before the start of the Six-Day War, Israel asked if the United States had any ships in the region. The U.S. said it did not, and United States Ambassador Goldberg announced in the United Nations that the U.S. had no ships within 350 miles (560 km) to 400 miles (640 km)"
*****So the Israelis had the expectation that all ships in this war zone could be considered hostile. Rational neutral countries don't sail ships into a war zone.******