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イスラエルによるＵＳＳリバティー襲撃事件に関する新たな証言（Chicago Tribune）
１０月２日付のシカゴ・トリビューン紙は「米国の情報調査船に対する攻撃の新たな暴露：退役軍人達と公式文書は、米国とイスラエルがこの６７年の死をもたらした事故を十分に語っていないことを示している」と題する長文の記事を掲載しました。
１９６７年６月８日、いわゆる「６日戦争」が始まった３日目に、イスラエル空軍は米国の諜報収集艦ＵＳＳリバティーを公海上で爆撃し人員に機銃掃射を浴びせて１５０名以上にものぼる海軍兵士と士官を死傷させました。当時のジョンソン政権は歴史上先例の無い行動として報復を拒否し、この奇襲攻撃の生存者に対して「軍法会議」の脅迫を使って沈黙させたのです。そして続くどの政権もいまだこの件を取り上げたことはありません。
「私は怒っている！ 怒りで打ち震えている！ この４０年間だ。私は怒りに打ち震えている！」
こう語るのは当時この船に乗っていた軍曹Bryce Lockwood氏です。この記事は彼の証言を皮切りに、各種の文書、多くの米国とイスラエルの元兵士の証言によって、この事件に対する新たな諸事実を明らかにしています。
シオニスト＝イスラエル＝米国政府によるイラン攻撃などがささやかれる今、こういった記事が新聞に登場することの意味は大きいと思います。以下、極めて長文ですので、書き出しの部分だけを貼り付けておきます。残りの部分は以下のＵｒｌから入ってお読みください。
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-liberty_tuesoct02,0,66005.story?page=1&coll=chi_tab01_layout
（下のサイトにもコピーされています。）
http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?ID=7290
New revelations in attack on American spy ship
Veterans, documents suggest U.S., Israel didn't tell full story of deadly '67 incident
By John Crewdson | Tribune senior correspondent October 2, 2007
Bryce Lockwood, Marine staff sergeant, Russian-language expert, recipient of the Silver Star for heroism, ordained Baptist minister, is shouting into the phone.
"I'm angry! I'm seething with anger! Forty years, and I'm seething with anger!"
Lockwood was aboard the USS Liberty, a super-secret spy ship on station in the eastern Mediterranean, when four Israeli fighter jets flew out of the afternoon sun to strafe and bomb the virtually defenseless vessel on June 8, 1967, the fourth day of what would become known as the Six-Day War.
For Lockwood and many other survivors, the anger is mixed with incredulity: that Israel would attack an important ally, then attribute the attack to a case of mistaken identity by Israeli pilots who had confused the U.S. Navy's most distinctive ship with an Egyptian horse-cavalry transport that was half its size and had a dissimilar profile. And they're also incredulous that, for years, their own government would reject their calls for a thorough investigation.
"They tried to lie their way out of it!" Lockwood shouts. "I don't believe that for a minute! You just don't shoot at a ship at sea without identifying it, making sure of your target!"
Four decades later, many of the more than two dozen Liberty survivors located and interviewed by the Tribune cannot talk about the attack without shouting or weeping.
Their anger has been stoked by the declassification of government documents and the recollections of former military personnel, including some quoted in this article for the first time, which strengthen doubts about the U.S. National Security Agency's position that it never intercepted the communications of the attacking Israeli pilots -- communications, according to those who remember seeing them, that showed the Israelis knew they were attacking an American naval vessel.
The documents also suggest that the U.S. government, anxious to spare Israel's reputation and preserve its alliance with the U.S., closed the case with what even some of its participants now say was a hasty and seriously flawed investigation.
In declassifying the most recent and largest batch of materials last June 8, the 40th anniversary of the attack, the NSA, this country's chief U.S. electronic-intelligence-gatherer and code-breaker, acknowledged that the attack had "become the center of considerable controversy and debate." It was not the agency's intention, it said, "to prove or disprove any one set of conclusions, many of which can be drawn from a thorough review of this material," available atwww.nsa.gov/liberty .
An Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman, Mark Regev, called the attack on the Liberty "a tragic and terrible accident, a case of mistaken identity, for which Israel has officially apologized." Israel also paid reparations of $6.7 million to the injured survivors and the families of those killed in the attack, and another $6 million for the loss of the Liberty itself.
But for those who lost their sons and husbands, neither the Israelis' apology nor the passing of time has lessened their grief.
One is Pat Blue, who still remembers having her lunch in Washington's Farragut Square park on "a beautiful June afternoon" when she was a 22-year-old secretary for a law firm.
Blue heard somebody's portable radio saying a U.S. Navy ship had been torpedoed in the eastern Mediterranean. A few weeks before, Blue's husband of two years, an Arab-language expert with the NSA, had been hurriedly dispatched overseas.
As she listened to the news report, "it just all came together." Soon afterward, the NSA confirmed that Allen Blue was among the missing.
"I never felt young again," she said.
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