American Sailors Deliberatly Sacrificed?

If this doesn't get your blood boiling, or at least get you wondering, then nothing will.

An old friend sent this to me.  Like him, I remember this incident and remember the news reports stating that two Israeli fighter jets were involved.

From Wikipedia: 

The USS Liberty incident was an attack on a United States Navy technical research ship, USS Liberty, by Israeli jet fighter planes, followed shortly by motor torpedo boats, on June 8, 1967, during the on-going Six-Day War. The combined air and sea attack killed 34 crew members (naval officers, seamen, two Marines, and a civilian), wounded 171 crew members, and severely damaged the ship. At the time, the ship was in international waters north of the Sinai Peninsula, about 25.5 nmi (29.3 mi; 47.2 km) northwest from the Egyptian city of Arish.

Both the Israeli and US governments conducted inquiries into the incident, and issued reports, which concluded that the attack was a mistake, due to Israeli confusion about the identity of the USS Liberty. Some US diplomats, veterans and intelligence officials who were involved in the incident continue to dispute these official findings, saying the Israeli attack on the USS Liberty was not a mistake, and it remains the only major maritime incident in US history not investigated by the US Congress.

My buddy knows and served with the wounded sailor who is pictured here and who helped put this report together.  Not that that alone is proof of veracity, but there's always an element of more believability to something if you personally know some of the participants.

If this kind of skullduggery is true, and I personally have no doubt that to some degree it certainly is, then it becomes a lot more understandable why people around this world want to fly airplanes into our buildings.