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  • State Department finds Israel negligent in 1967 ship attack that killed 34 Americans (USS Liberty)

    01/12/2004 5:25:29 PM PST · by NormsRevenge · 52 replies · 226+ views
    Bakersfield Californian ^ | 1/12/04 | Barry Schweid - AP
    WASHINGTON (AP) - Reviewing documents covering 36 years, the State Department concluded Monday that Israel's attack on the U.S. spy ship Liberty during the 1967 Six Day War was an act of Israeli negligence. The United States also was negligent, a State Department official said, for failing to notify Israel that the electronic intelligence-gathering ship was cruising international waters off the Egyptian coast and for failing to withdraw the Liberty from the war zone. A daylong conference that studied fresh documents as well as the established record failed to produce a consensus for any of three views voiced most often:...