Disputed Facts Related to a Cover-up

"She moved at "high speed" westward toward enemy coast."

This excuse contains two factual mistakes. USS Liberty neither moved at "high speed" nor toward the "enemy coast." The map immediately below depicts the track of USS Liberty from midnight on June 8th until after the attack. From midnight until approximately 0900, she maintained an average speed of fifteen knots. At 0900, however, she slowed to approximately five knots as she had reached her cruising station.

At 1100 (more than two hours before the attack), she changed course to 283 degrees. Had she remained on that course, she would have made landfall in Italy.

Five knots is by no means considered "high speed." USS Liberty had been making five knots in a Northwesterly direction for more than two hours prior to the attack. During this time, several Israeli aircraft orbited the ship at low altitude at regular intervals.

Not that either factual allegation would serve to justify the illegal Israeli attack, they are both false. This is yet another instance of Israeli relying on excuses composed of fabricated facts.