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Wednesday, November 6, 2013
Friday, August 3, 2012
Turkey Breaks With Israel but Still Does Their Bidding. Why?
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The Turkish Army in Northern Iraq, a Familiar Sight |
by Gordon Duff
The following short article was printed on the Press TV (Iran) website today.
The meaning of it is clear to those familiar with the region, and, as hundreds, perhaps thousands of journalists have worked in Iraq and the Kurdish regions, where I have also worked, the story is obvious, it just can’t be printed.
Many of “players,” the Mossad, big oil, the Bush family, are beyond the reach of the press, protected from the laws of man, empowered to play the world as a grand chessboard, to quote Zbigniew Brzezinski.
Today’s pawn is Kurdistan, unaware they are being played.
“The Iraqi government has summoned Ankara’s envoy to Baghdad in protest to a recent visit by Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu to the disputed Iraqi city of Kirkuk.
Turkey’s foreign minister travelled to Kirkuk on Thursday while on a visit to Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdistan region. The Iraqi Foreign Ministry says Ankara must have informed it ahead of the visit. Iraq has warned that Turkey should be ready for “the results of this action” and its potential “negative effects on relations between the two countries.”The real story is of Turkey, whose armies have entered Iraq “chasing terrorists” on many occasions, to the point their artillery would awaken me, has decided to become involved in Iraq’s internal affairs.
Kurdistan may well have a right to be a free nation. Were it so, 70% of the land making up Kurdistan would come from inside Turkey, not just Iraq. For decades, Turkey violently suppressed the role of Kurds within Turkey, in large regions where they make up the majority of the population.
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Ahmet Davutoglu – Foreign Minister |
Before Saddam realigned the population of Iraq, Kirkuk, home of one of the world’s largest oil fields, was a Kurdish city.
There have been continual political confrontations over Kirkuk for years. My personal views tend to side with the Kurds, they are my friends, some are as my own family.
However, the value of Kurdistan has changed since Israel moved in. They had been there for many years, operating in the shadows, assassinating Christian leaders, pitting side against side but Kurdistan never joined in the civil war planned for them.
Though the beneficiary of oil revenue, a region close to the US, much closer than the government in Baghdad, Kurdistan is also close to Iran. The current capitol, Erbil, is a growing city, clean and safe, but it has taken years to get basic services, sewers, water and electricity in place though billions have been made available.
These are projects I worked on and found a people willing and able but denied needed leadership because of greed, avarice of a few and feuding.
Kurdistan is now on the map because Israel wants it, as it wants Azerbaijan, as a staging ground for the destabilization of Iran.
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Refining in Kirkuk |
Now with America gone, Israel’s military has moved in.
The Mossad has been there since Saddam came to power, their relationship of love and hate, more of convenience, mirrors Saddam’s relationship with the Bush family.
One moment they supply him with materials to make WMDs and tell him to go into Kuwait, the next minute they bomb and invade, though he was only obeying their commands.
Saddam was “set up.”
This is but one of a thousand reasons Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld belong on the dock or at the end of a rope. The proof has always been there, unpreported but simple, easy to understand and utterly damning.
Every world out of Bush 41 and 43′s mouths were lies and thousands of Americans and hundreds of thousands of Iraq’s paid while political friends of the Bush family raked in endless billions.
If remembered, hundreds of billions in aid simply disappeared while at the same time, trillions disappeared from Wall Street and America’s middle class became a memory.
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More looted billions that you can imagine |
Now Israel has taken over bases in Kurdistan, and the Turkish envoy treats them as an independent nation as the world moves toward an Israeli demanded invasion of Iran.
Israel has always pulled Turkish strings, it started in the 1400s when the Sultan brought the Jews of Europe to the Ottoman Empire to take over his administration and finances. The entire Middle East and most of the Balkans were bled dry for centuries.
What is in Kurdistan? We know Israeli drones are there. We don’t know if fighter planes have arrived but we know fuel, aircraft servicing facilities are prepared, technicians and some military are on the ground.
We also know the government in Baghdad is powerless to stand against it with some politicians claiming to manage relations between Iran and Iraq actually under the pay of Israel. I got to see this one “up front and personal.”
One might ask, why, after a decade of slaughter, is Iran the target of daily terror attacks? Who does it serve?
Who would want Iraq destabilized so it could be broken apart, with the north falling under the influence of the Turks, the same Turks massing on the Syrian border as we speak?
Is the dog in Tel Aviv and the tail in Ankara or the other way around?
What I can say for certain is that there are no long term plans for the Kurdish people to thrive, not with the gang they are playing with. Few have suffered more, perhaps the Armenians, the Palestinians (that Turkey promised to save).
Kirkuk is about oil and the balance of power in Iraq is with Baghdad. To me Kirkuk is a Kurdish city, one stolen decades ago in a genocide by a Bush befriended maniac.
I would expand Kurdistan. I would take it North, perhaps 200 miles. Kurdish leaders speak of this only in whispers, knowing the Turks could take back the limited rights Kurds there now enjoy, move the clock back.
What is the truth? Syria, Egypt, Libya, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Kurdistan? Any attempt by a Muslim nation to establish a representative democracy attracts the jackals.
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Thursday, July 5, 2012
The Missing Jewish Millionaire’s Connection to Israeli Intelligence
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| Guma Aguiar actually lived in Israel much of the time and owns a home there. |
By Chris Bollyn
The strange disappearance of Guma L. Aguiar of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, sounds very much like a modern-day Huck Finn escape, which is actually a ploy frequently used by Israeli criminals. The Israeli gangsters don’t really die, they just take on a new life in Israel. Since there is no evidence that Guam Aguiar is dead, he should be considered a missing person, one who is probably living in Israel.
Without a trace: the strange disappearing act of Guma Aguiar” is the title of a June 30 Miami Herald article, which described Aguiar’s disappearance:
On June 19, Aguiar, 35 — anguished over his tenuous marriage, locked in a vicious court battle with his uncle and struggling to hold onto his sanity — vanished.
He took his 31-foot fishing boat out to sea from Port Everglades in choppy seas and inclement weather. More than five hours later, the boat ran aground on Fort Lauderdale beach. Its engine was running, its lights were on, but no one was aboard.
It’s not clear whether Aguiar was swallowed by the sea, staged his disappearance, was kidnapped or murdered.
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Guma Aguiar’s home in Fort Lauderdale |
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| A map showing Aguiar’s home and the location on the beach where his boat was found. There are literally hundreds of boats between his house and the beach that Aguiar could have escaped on. |
In an article on the legal wrangling between Aguiar’s wife and his mother over his estimated $100 million estate in south Florida, the Daily Mail (UK) reported:
Thirty-five-year old Guma Aguiar’s body has so far not been recovered, nor is there any evidence that he is deceased.
Jamie Aquiar’s attorney even suggested in court that her husband could have staged his own disappearance to escape his financial, marital and legal problems.
While the controlled “mainstream” media focus on the legal battles for his estate and Aguiar’s “demons”, referring to his bi-polar disorder, they completely leave out a very important component about Guma Aguiar’s family: His high-level connection to Israeli intelligence through his uncle and business partner.
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| Emma Kaplan Aguiar, mother of the missing millionaire, seems more concerned about taking control of her son’s estate – away from his wife and children – than finding him. |
Leon Recanati is well-known to be one of Israel’s tycoons, deeply involved for decades in one of Israel’s most corrupt banks, the Israel Discount Bank (IDB). Recanati is also a Major (reserves) in the Intelligence Corps of the Israeli military. From 1986 until 2003, Recanati ran IDB Holdings. The IDB has a long record of money laundering and is closely tied to the Madoff scam and other major financial crimes committed in the United States. Recanati is closely connected to the Crown family of Chicago, owners of General Dynamics and generous sponsors of both Barak Obama and Mitt Romney.
Charles H. Goodman, for example, Vice President of Henry Crown and Company from 1973 to 2002 and Vice Chairman of Henry Crown and Company since 2002 has been a Director of General Dynamics Corp. since 1991. Goodman is also the Chairman of the Leon Recanati School of Business at Tel Aviv University.
Guma Aguiar has invested millions of dollars in Zionist organizations and Israeli football clubs, including Betar (the Likud club) and publicly expressed the desire to live permanently in Israel. He had even given some $8 million to an Israeli organization called Nefesh B’Nefesh whose primary mission is to get Jews from the United States and western nations to migrate to Israel. He reportedly lived in Israel more than half the year and had lived in Israel for three years in a row in the past decade. Until evidence of Aguiar’s death is presented, it should be considered very likely that he is still alive, and living in Israel.
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Is Guma Aguiar still dancing in Israel? |
Sources and Recommended Reading:
“Apparent death of U.S. philanthropist leaves Israeli sports club in an imbroglio,” by David Marouani, Haaretz (Israel), June 26, 2012 http://www.haaretz.com/news/sports/apparent-death-of-u-s-philanthropist-leaves-israeli-sports-club-in-an-imbroglio-1.443952
“Bollyn’s Update on Madoff’s Guilty Plea of March 12, 2009,” FourWinds10.net http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/government/judicial_and_courts/news.php?q=1237314740
“Chicago’s Elders of Zion and Obama’s War for Profit,” by Christopher Bollyn, October 14, 2011 http://www.bollyn.com/chicagos-elders-of-zion-and-obamas-war-for-profit/
Guma Aguiar videos, Religion and State in Israel http://religionandstateinisrael.blogspot.se/2009/05/guma-aguiar-lawyers-warning-letter.html
Leon Recanati, Biography, Jewish Virtual Library, July 3, 2012 http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/Leon_Recanati.html
Leon Y. Recanati, Executive Profile, BusinessWeek, July 3, 2012 http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/person.asp?personId=628025&privcapId=59217422&previousCapId=274561&previousTitle=GENERAL%20DYNAMICS%20CORP
“The Orthodox Jewish Criminal Network in the United States,” by Christopher Bollyn, July 27, 2009 http://www.bollyn.com/the-orthodox-jewish-criminal-network/
“The Zionist Gang that Bankrupted General Motors,” by Christopher Bollyn, June 16, 2009 http://www.bollyn.com/the-zionist-gang-that-bankrupted-general-motors/
“Without a trace: the strange disappearing act of Guma Aguiar,” by Julie K. Brown, Miami Herald, June 30, 2012 http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/06/30/v-fullstory/2876678/without-a-trace-the-strange-disappearing.html
Friday, June 8, 2012
US Warns Israel –There Will Be No ‘USS Liberty Pt II’
For the last 41 years, Israel’s attack on the USS Liberty has been a taboo topic about which neither the Jewish state nor the US has allowed free and open discussion. Like a paid-off judge in the service of organized crime interests pounding his gavel on the bench, for the last 4 decades Israel and her supporters in the US government have bellowed ‘case closed’ and have raked over the coals anyone–including the survivors of the attack themselves–from arguing otherwise. Realizing the tidal wave of outrage that would occur if the American people were to come of age and lose their innocence in realizing what Israel did in murdering 34 American servicemen 4 decades ago in a premeditated act of war (to say nothing of the cover-up perpetrated by the US government) it has been on the list of forbidden topics……until recently.
Cutting short his trip in Europe the first week of July, recently-appointed Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Adm. Mike Mullen flew to Tel Aviv along with an entourage of high-ranking US military personnel and, upon his arrival, rushed to meet with the highest-ranking members of Israel’s military establishment. While this is not unusual (as many such meetings have been taking place as of late) what was unusual was the topic discussed–Israel’s attack on the USS Liberty 41 years ago during the 6 day war and how ‘important’ it was that ‘history not repeat itself,’ given the present tensions existing between Israel and Iran. Considering the subject of that meeting and the well-known cover-up that has taken place these last 41 years, the meeting should have made headline news all over America. Sadly, however, it did not, just another testimony to the fact that America is now officially ‘occupied territory’ every bit as much as Arab Palestine.
The fact that the meeting took place at all is news enough, but what is of even more importance is what can be inferred from the meeting. Given the fact that this brazen 2 hour attack upon the United States has been hushed up these last 41 years, there can be little else to conclude by Mullen’s meeting other than the obvious–That someone from within the intelligence or military apparatus of the United States has looked towards the horizon and concluded that Israel is planning a ‘USS Liberty Pt II,’ meaning an attack on a US ship, most likely in the Persian Gulf, leading to a massive loss of life to be then blamed on Iran. As was intended in 1967 when Israel attacked the Liberty, Americans would be incensed into such a war frenzy that they would demand the ‘obliteration’ (a la Hillary Clinton) of the guilty party, the false identity of which the Jewish media establishment in America would be all too glad to provide. And while all players involved have been tight-lipped about the particulars of this story, what can be concluded nevertheless is that Mullen’s impromptu trip to Israel and subsequent discussion was in effect a stern warning to Israel of ‘Don’t even think about it bubba’.
Those who suspect that Mullen (a company man not cut from the same cloth as the recently ‘retired’ Adm. William Fallon) has been afflicted with a sudden case of patriotic fever should consider this recent news against the more likely backdrop of sheer pragmatism. The sad fact is, patriotism more than likely had little to do with it. The US is having its rear end handed to it in Iraq and Afghanistan and now some in Washington are beginning to realize that they‘ve just put their foot into something nasty with regards to Israel’s dirty wars in the Middle East that will never be finished as long as she exists. With oil and virtually all consumer products skyrocketing in price simultaneous to the US economy going down the drain, some now understand that by signing on as Israel’s pit bull in the Muslim world that America will wind up paying the ultimate price for her devotion to the Jewish state, meaning the complete destruction of her economy and her position as a world power.
It is no secret Mullen is very friendly when it comes to the great experiment in Jewish self rule in the Middle East as well as his willingness to tow the line with regards to the sworn enemies of that great experiment. Immediately after the release of the National Intelligence Estimate in early December of 2007 stating that Iran had no nuclear weapons program America’s highest ranking military officer high-tailed it to Israel (the first Chairman of the Joint Chiefs to do so in a decade) to reassure her of America’s support that would last ‘1,000 years’.
As of late however, America’s top general officer seems to be singing a different tune with regards to widening the present debacle to include war with Iran that stands the very real chance of bringing into the fray nuclear-armed nations such as Russia and China. Out of necessity therefore he has now joined with saner voices both inside and outside the Bush administration who are trying to prevent an otherwise apocalyptic end to America. In discussing an attack on Iran Mullen recently stated that opening a third front would be ‘extremely stressful’ on the US military and added that it would lead to consequences ‘difficult to predict’, adding that “There is need for better clarity, even dialogue at some level.”
And this, added to all the other things taking place these days (not excluding of course the talk of withdrawing US troops from Iraq) is what is making Israel jittery to the point she would contemplate pulling off another ‘USS Liberty’. For the sake of her own survival she simply cannot afford to have her ‘fixer’ in the Middle East walk away from a ‘hit’ to which he has been assigned, and it is for this reason that forward-thinking people in the US are beginning to sense Israel may soon pull a few surprises out of her infamous black bag of dirty tricks.
Once the stomping grounds solely of ‘anti-Semitic conspiracy theorists’ that the Jewish state might pull a fast one in order to get the US involved in a war for her own interests, now ‘respectable’ people have begun to voice such thoughts openly as well. In a recent piece appearing in an issue of American Conservative Magazine entitled ‘If Iran is Attacking, It Might Really Be Israel’, ex-CIA officer Phillip Giraldi writes as follows–
‘Some intel types are beginning to express concerns that the Israelis might do something completely crazy to get the US involved. There are a number of possible “false flag” scenarios in which the Israelis could stage an incident that they will make to look Iranian, either by employing Iranian weapons or by leaving a communications footprint that points to Tehran’s involvement. Those who argue Israel would never do such a thing should think again. Israel is willing to behave with complete ruthlessness towards the US if they feel that the stakes are high enough. Witness the attack on the USS Liberty and the bombing of the US Consulate in Alexandria in the 1950s. If they now believe that Iran is a threat that must be eliminated it is not implausible to assume they will stop at nothing to get the United States to do it for them, particularly as their air force is only able to damage the Iranian nuclear program, not destroy it…’
‘My guess is the Israeli leaders are apoplectic…This dramatic change — or even just the specter of it — greatly increases Israel’s incentive to ensure US involvement in the area that would endure for several years. The Israelis need to create “facts on the ground” — something to guarantee Washington will stand by “our ally.” The legislation drafted by AIPAC calls for a blockade of Iran. That would be one way to entangle; there are many others. The point is that the growing danger the Israelis perceive will probably prompt them to find a way to get the US involved in hostilities with Iran. All Israel has to do is to arrange to be attacked. Not a problem. There are endless possibilities among which Israel can choose to catalyze such a confrontation. Viewed from Tel Aviv it appears an increasingly threatening situation, with more urgent need to “embed” (so to speak) the United States even more deeply in the region — in a confrontation involving both countries with Iran. A perfect storm is brewing…In sum, Israel is likely to be preparing a September/October surprise designed to keep the US bogged down in Iraq and in the wider region by provoking hostilities with Iran. And don’t be surprised if it starts as early as August…
For her part, Israel is attempting to play the role of the innocent, cooperative and concerned ally in the wake of Mullen’s meeting by summoning Judge Jay Cristol, a federal bankruptcy judge in Miami and devoted Zionist who wrote a book in 2002 exculpating Israel of any wrongdoing in the Liberty attack. He is lecturing at military academies in Haifa and Ashdod on how to avoid the ‘mistakes’ that led to the attack on the Liberty.
One thing is for certain. Out of all the topics to be discussed with his Israeli counterparts, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Mullen picked the topic of the USS Liberty, and not because he felt nostalgic, sentimental or even–Heaven forbid–guilty over the way the Liberty survivors have been treated these last 41 years. He, like many within the military and intelligence establishment, no doubt realizes that America sits at the precipice of destruction and is no doubt trying to pull her back before that proverbial ‘point of no return’ is reached, if in fact it has not been reached already.
And as sobering a theme as all this may be, the fact is that it may turn out to be much worse. What Israel wants, Israel gets, and the fact that an attack on a US ship has been thwarted does not mean that the fat lady has sung, as now the likelihood of a false flag attack on the American mainland has been made all the more probable. This time however, just for good measure and for spite, it might not be a city building coming down after being struck by an airliner, but rather an entire city being consumed in a mushroom cloud, courtesy of a place called Dimona and a criminal organization known as Mossad.
2008 by Mark Glenn
Insider Tells the Truth About the Cover-up of the Attack on the USS Liberty
‘Son, I spent 2 years as a special agent in the FBI and over 30 yrs in the military, and if it is one thing I learned through all of this, it’s that when you get an order, you say ‘yes sir’ and carry it out with no questions asked’.
For 35 years Capt. Ward lived with the bitter knowledge that his fellow servicemen had been deliberately murdered in what was an act of war by a foreign power and yet because of the orders he received was powerless to say anything. A conflux of events however led him to make the decision to ‘damn the torpedoes’ and to let the chips fall where they may. ‘I’m an old man’ he told AFP. ‘They can’t threaten my job, and if they throw me into jail, so what? The truth has to be told for the benefit of the survivors and for the American people whose sons and daughters are dying today’.
The first of these events leading him to break his silence was the 2002 release of a book entitled ‘The Liberty Incident’ written by Judge Ahron Jay Cristol at a time when America was being drawn into a series of long-term military engagements with countries that just so happened to be enemies of Israel. Through his book and subsequent speaking tour, Cristol (a slavish, shameless, fanatical apologist for the Jewish State who is on more-than-friendly terms with a number of people in both the military and arms industry in Israel) did the usual song and dance when it comes to discussing the terrorist state that attacked America in 1967, which was to argue for unconditional acquittal, using a collage of sloppy yet deliberate misrepresentations and omissions of fact. In Capt. Boston’s words, it was Cristol’s ‘insidious attempt to whitewash the event that pushed me to speak out’.
‘These rats,’ he said, referring to Israel and her defenders. ‘They lie about everything. You can’t believe a word they say’ he told AFP. What was so important about this statement was that Capt. Boston was not just talking about the past, but about the present and future as well. ‘They’ve completely infested the entire Intelligence and Defense apparatus of the United States’ he said. ‘Perle, Feith, Wolfowitz, and all the rest of them…They’re spies for Israel, every damned one of them’ he said. ‘Just consider the 5 guys who were arrested after 9/11, cheering and celebrating, and then afterwards we come to find out that they were Mossad and then they get sent back to Israel. They knew all about it and yet our government, the government I worked for most of my life did nothing about it. Can you imagine if these guys were Arabs?’ he asked. ‘It’s been the same thing, ever since 1967’ he said with unmistakable aggravation. ‘Protect Israel, protect Israel…In the meantime, our boys are dying over there and those who don’t die are coming back here with all sorts of problems, both physical and psychological’.
It was his visit to Israel some years back that clinched it for this man in terms of his feelings for the ‘great experiment’ in Jewish self-rule. ‘The way they treat the Arabs…it’s unconscionable’ he said. ‘You go into Israel, into the only places where they allow the tourists, and it’s the picture of paradise, just as the Soviets used to do. Then you take a detour off the approved itinerary and you see what it is really like…The poverty, misery, abuse. Arab kids being gunned down in broad daylight. It’s worse than South Africa. Only a person with a ice water in his veins could see the way the Arabs are treated and not be outraged’.
As far as the future goes, Capt. Boston is not hopeful. ‘If either they (the Israelis) or the US launches a war against Iran, it will be the beginning of the end’ he said. ‘Armageddon…You’ll have Muslims pouring into the area from all over the world and no army will be able to stop them. They will tear Israel and the Americans to pieces.’
As far as his reaction to the predictable accusations of ‘anti-Semitism’ that have been leveled against him for telling the truth concerning the attack on the Liberty, he laughs it off. ‘One of my closest friends growing up was Jewish’ he said. ‘I don’t have a prejudiced bone in my body. What we are dealing with here is an act of war initiated against the United States, the country I swore an oath to defend, period. If a proper investigation into the attack on the Liberty had been allowed to take place and the American people made aware of what happened, we would not be in the middle of this mess in the Middle East now.’
2007 By Mark Glenn
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Memories That Won’t Die–First Hand Account of Israel’s Murder of 34 American Servicemen on the USS Liberty
‘When the first missile hit, I thought one of the main lines from the boiler had blown. The whole ship shook so hard it felt like an earthquake. About 15 seconds later when I smelled what seemed like burned gunpowder and heard the Captain order everyone to General Quarters on the ship, I knew it wasn’t no blown pipe, but that the ship was under attack. Everything that took place afterwards moved in slow motion’.
‘We had no idea who was attacking us until it was all over…It seemed like it would never end, and the only reason I think it stopped was that they ran out of ammo. Had that not happened, I have no doubt that they would have finished us off for sure. They were out to sink us that day, plain and simple.’
He is surprisingly calm when he speaks about what he witnessed that day. At least by superficial appearances he does not wear any of the typical psychological scars commonplace with men who have seen battle up close and personal. For him, the scars he does wear are those of outrage–outrage that 34 Americans lost their lives in a Pearl Harbor-type sneak attack and that the government for which he worked bent over backwards to cover it up. Rather than swallowing the anger and allowing it to destroy him though (as it has done to so many others) he projects it outwardly, as evidenced by his comments–‘Those SOB’s oughtta get on their knees and thank God everyday that I have a wife and kids, because if I were a single man with nothing to lose I would’ve tracked them down a long time ago and dealt them a dose of justice they would never forget.’
He–like the rest of the crew of the Liberty that day–was taken completely by surprise when the attack began, just as Israel had planned. John Doe had started off the day executing his duties in the engineering plant, the heart of the ship that provided the lifeblood for all its vital functions. He–like the rest of the crew–knew that hostilities were taking place in nearby Sinai, but went about his duties confident that he was safe, as the Liberty was in international waters, and–as Americans are never permitted to forget–Israel was America’s ‘greatest ally’.
Besides this, the Liberty was not a vessel of war. In fact she was the most advanced intelligence gathering ship in the world, with no heavy guns, 45 antennae on top and flying a flag a blind man could see from a mile away. Looking back, the only thing that caused him to sense that strange events were afoot was the fact that there were over-flights taking place every 30-45 minutes by low-flying Israeli reconnaissance aircraft in the 6 hour period immediately preceding the attack and that Capt. McGonagle called the Duty Photographic Teams to the deck to document them. Other than that, everything was just another normal peaceful day–until the first missile struck.
‘When the skipper called for Battle Stations, we grabbed our life jackets and helmets…My job was to go and secure all the hatches in deck 01 to ensure watertight integrity for the ship, and it was at this point,’ he tells AFP, that ‘things begin to blank out.’
‘As I said, everything kind of moved in slow motion. We did what we spent months training to do and did so without thinking much about it.’ But there are some things that he will never forget and which wake him at night sometimes.
‘I’ll never forget that first guy I saw, running down the hall towards me, covered in blood, screaming for someone to help him, or that other guy with a hole in his neck and blood gushing out of him. I’m ashamed to say I don’t even remember who they were, even though they were my own crewman.’
He continues–‘Around midnight I came up to the mess hall and saw that it had been turned into a make-shift triage room. The blood was everywhere…on the floor…on the walls…you could smell it and tried not to slip on it.’ One of the things John remembers best is what he calls the ‘incoherent murmur’–the sounds of men, lying on the floor fighting to survive as the ship’s one doctor–Lt. Kiefer–and 2 navy corpsmen tried desperately to save them.
‘Unless you honed in on one of the men and concentrated, it all just sounded like noise, but then once you did, you could hear what was going on. Some prayed out loud, begging God to let them live. Some called out for their moms. We ran out of medical supplies pretty quick and so the men had to lie there until help came 18 hours later, groaning in agony. We later found out that Doc Keifer had taken several pieces of shrapnel in the gut that none of us knew about and didn’t even tend to himself until he did what he could for the rest of the men.’
Going up top to survey the damage, he saw that it was just as bad there as it was below. ‘The deck was usually clean as a whistle, but now it was covered with blood and littered with pieces of flesh, shards of bone and various other body parts of the fellas who had been up there when Israel unleashed hell on us. Bullet holes everywhere you looked. Seemed like there was a million of them.’
He related to AFP some of the other scenes visible on the deck that day–A shipmate lying near the main gun whose body was gone from the waist down…What looked like 5 gallons of blood that pooled in a low spot as it sloshed back and forth with the rocking of the ship…Another crewman whose foot was caught in a cable as he hung upside down, suspended a few feet above the deck, and a few feet from him, one spent casing from the gun. The gunner only managed to fire off one round in the attack before the lower half of his body was blown off.
In John’s opinion, the fact that only one round had been fired was just more proof as to how effective Israel had been in getting the Americans to lower their guard before they were sucker-punched with the sneak attack. John told AFP that Capt. McGonagle, the ship’s skipper, himself covered with blood from shrapnel he caught in his arm and leg, limped out on to the deck and ordered the bigger pieces of flesh and bone be collected and the smaller ones washed off the deck with the firehose. The larger remains were later buried in a singular grave at Arlington National Cemetery.
John Doe could go on all day if pressed to do so, but out of consideration for him the interview is cut short. He had a few parting words though about the matter–
‘Those SOB’s murdered 34 Americans and for the last 40 years our government has covered it up and protected those who did it. It started with one Texas clown named Johnson and continues to this day with another Texas clown named Bush. Had the Liberty attack been dealt with as it would have were it any other country, we wouldn’t find ourselves in this mess today. That region is not worth one drop of American blood, and the thought of them getting away with this is what p***** me off more than anything else.
John was told 4 decades ago by the US Government that he would get his chance to speak one day. ‘Well, it’s been 40 years and they haven’t contacted me yet, although I did manage to get $200.00 after the State Department filed a claim against the state of Israel for what took place that day. I was lucky, some of the other guys only received $56.00 for what they went through.’
‘Forty years ago they told us that speaking about it would be doing a ‘disservice’ to the dead. Hell, I can’t think of a bigger disservice than what’s been done to the fellas than the 40 years of silence they’ve gotten on this issue from their own government. We are tired of the silence, tired of the lies. We have been fighting the devil and his advocate for 40 years now, in this case, Israel being the devil and the US government being his advocate.’
For more on what took place that day, readers of AFP are encouraged to go to the website dedicated to the memory of the men of the USS Liberty found at www.ussliberty.org. Those interested in watching the video documentary on what took place entitled ‘Dead in the Water’ can write to the USS Liberty Veterans Association, c/o Moe Shafer/4994 Lower Roswell Rd, Suite 33/ Marietta Georgia 30068. The cost of the video is $25.00 and all proceeds go to the LVA for purposes of keeping the Liberty story alive.
2007 Mark Glenn
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