Reply #96: The Israeli soldiers were massacring Egyptian POWs in the town of El Arish [View All]

[Elidor]

The Liberty, being a SIGINT ship, was very capable of picking up evidence of these war crimes. Egyptian POWs, hands tied behind their backs, were lined up against a wall and machine-gunned. Many of them were forced to dig their own graves before being killed. The Liberty could have caused a lot of trouble for the Israelis, who had also killed UN troops during the war, so they attempted to destroy the ship and everyone onboard.

And our government helped the Israelis cover the whole thing up.

My source for this is James Bamford's Body of Secrets, pgs. 201-202.