16 Feb 2012 20:56:42
10.1990 Testimony of Nayirah: A 15-year-old girl named Nayirah testified before the U.S. Congress that she had seen Iraqi soldiers pulling Kuwaiti babies from incubators, causing them to die. The testimony helped gain major public support for the 1991 Gulf War, but”despite protests that the dispute of this story was itself a conspiracy theory”the testimony was was later proven false.
The public-relations firm Hill & Knowlton, then in the employ of Citizens for a Free Kuwait, had arranged Nayirah's testimony. It turned out that Nayirah had taken acting lessons at the request of the C.I.A. and was actually Nayirah al-Sabah, the niece of a major politician in Kuwait and daughter of Saud bin Nasir Al-Sabah, Kuwaiti ambassador to the U.S.A.
The Congressional Human Rights Caucus, of which Congressman Tom Lantos was co-chairman, had been responsible for hosting Nurse Nayirah, and thereby popularizing her allegations. When the girl™s account was later challenged by independent human rights monitors, Lantos replied, The notion that any of the witnesses brought to the caucus through the Kuwaiti Embassy would not be credible did not cross my mind¦ I have no basis for assuming that her story is not true, but the point goes beyond that. If one hypothesizes that the woman™s story is fictitious from A to Z, that in no way diminishes the avalanche of human rights violations. Nevertheless, the senior Republican on the Human Rights Caucus, John Edward Porter, responded to the revelations by saying that if he had known that the girl was the ambassador™s daughter, he would not have allowed her to testify.
makes you think about the testomony about people in the furture.
frankyscouse