• Re: The Day the Middle East Was Close to Nuclear Annihilation | TikTok

    From TT@21:1/5 to All on Sun Nov 24 19:08:23 2024
    PeteWasLucky kirjoitti 24.11.2024 klo 17.28:
    https://www.tiktok.com/@alex.2090m/video/7337060808234716421



    Seems a bit fishy claim...

    The press release for the BBC documentary film Dead in the Water states
    that new recorded and other evidence suggests the attack was a "daring
    ploy by Israel to fake an Egyptian attack" to give America a reason to
    enter the war against Egypt. It claimed that President Lyndon B. Johnson launched allegedly nuclear-armed aircraft targeted against Cairo from a
    U.S. aircraft carrier in the Mediterranean. The aircraft were recalled
    only just in time, when it was clear the Liberty had not been sunk and
    that Israel had carried out the attack. An information source for the
    aircraft being nuclear-armed, James Ennes later stated:

    It is clear that I was mistaken about the aircraft involved, as F4s do
    not carry nuclear weapons. Others tell me that the aircraft that were
    launched carried Bullpup missiles, which might easily be mistaken for
    nuclear bombs. And we learned much later that the USS America was
    involved in a nuclear weapons loading drill at the very time the ship
    learned of the attack on the Liberty and that this drill is one factor
    that delayed America's response to our call for help. It is also
    possible that those were the weapons seen by our sources.

    Also confusing this issue is an oral history report from the American
    Embassy in Cairo, now in the LBJ Library, which notes that the Embassy
    received an urgent message from Washington warning that Cairo was about
    to be bombed by U.S. forces, presumably in mistaken retaliation for the
    USS Liberty attack. That strange message was never explained or
    cancelled.[101]

    The video also reports hearsay of a covert alliance of U.S. and Israeli intelligence agencies.[102]

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Liberty_incident

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