The Memory Hole cont....
Nayirah (testimony) - Media collaboration; taking Americans to war based on televised fabricated emotional LIES.
The Washington Post described the origin of the Kuwaiti baby story as follows:
The Kuwaiti baby story originated with a letter from a senior Kuwaiti public health official that was smuggled out of the country by a European diplomat late last month, according to Hudah Bahar, an architect who received the letter here in London.
It was supplemented by information gathered from fleeing Kuwaitis and other sources by Fawzia Sayegh, a Kuwaiti pediatrician living here. The letter claimed that Iraqi soldiers ordered patients evicted from several hospitals and closed down critical units for treating cancer patients, dialysis patients and those suffering from diabetes. Bahar and Sayegh said the Iraqis hauled sophisticated equipment such as dialysis machines back to Baghdad, part of the haul of cash, gold, cars and jewelry that is said by Arab banking sources to exceed $2 billion. Among the equipment taken were the 22 infant incubator units, they said.[7]
^ ALL LIES ^ < the debriefings of fleeing Kuwaitis were done by Amnesty International
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in fact, the looting of Kuwait that was done, was an inside job by the Kuwaiti Royal Family.
the looting of Iraq following 9-11 was done first by Israelis then by Americans.
WHO SPREAD THE LIE:
The Washington Post [though it ran the story] also noted that it was unable to verify the accusations as Iraq did not permit access to the area and had quarantined diplomats.[7]
On September 5, in another letter to the UN Secretary General,
Abulhasan reiterated Fowzan's claims writing:
We are informed by
impeccable sources in Kuwait's health institutions that the Iraqi occupation authorities have carried out the following brutal crimes, which may be described as crimes against humanity: ... 2. The incubators in maternity hospitals used for children suffering from retarded growth (premature children) have been removed, causing the death of all the children who were under treatment.[8]
The letter did not state how many babies had died.[7][9] The allegations in the letter received widespread media coverage in the following days.[10][11][12][13][14][15]
That day, in an interview with released hostages on
NPR's All Things Considered, a hostage stated that Iraqi troops were "hitting children with the butts of the guns, taking infants out of incubators and taking the incubators."[16]
Reuters also reported they had been told "that Iraqi troops took premature babies out of incubators in Kuwait in order to steal the equipment."[17][18]
On September 9,
NPR reported that "in a ward for premature infants, soldiers had turned off the oxygen on incubators and packed the equipment for shipment to Iraq."[19]
On September 17,
Edward Gnehm Jr., the U.S. ambassador-designate to Kuwait, told reporters that Kuwaiti health officials told him 22 babies had died when Iraqi troops had stolen their incubators.[20]
The Los Angeles Times reported that "refugees reported that incubators for premature babies were confiscated by Iraqi troops and the babies inside were piled on the floor and left to die."[6][21]
The San Jose Mercury News also reported the same allegation that day, adding that Western diplomats thought "this is the kind of thing that some people call genocide, and if people wanted to construe it as such, it could be cause for some kind of military intervention."[22]
On September 25,
the Washington Post reported that "Kuwait City's hospitals are being stripped of incubators."[6][23]
The president of Citizens for a Free Kuwait wrote to Representative Gus Yatron stating of how he "recently learned that the Iraqi leader has ordered that maternity hospital incubators [in Kuwait], used for treating premature babies, be turned off, allowing these infants to die of exposure."[24]
On September 29, in a meeting between
Kuwaiti leader Sheik Jabbar al Ahmed al Sabah and president George Bush Sr., the exiled emir told the president that Iraqis were "going into hospitals, taking babies out of incubators and people off life-support machines to send the equipment back to Iraq."[25][26]
In his remarks following the discussion,
Bush stated that "Iraqi aggression has ransacked and pillaged a once peaceful and secure country, its population assaulted, incarcerated, intimidated, and even murdered" and that "Iraq's leaders are trying to wipe an internationally recognized sovereign state, a member of the Arab League and the United Nations, off the face of the map."[27]
On September 28,
Kuwait's planning minister, Sulaiman Mutawa reported that 12 babies had died as a result of incubator looting.[28]
On September 30,
U.S. News & World Report reported that that it had obtained secret US government cables based on eyewitness accounts that revealed "shocking acts of brutality inflicted by the Iraqis against innocent citizens at Kuwaiti hospitals."[29]
The cables stated that on the sixth day of Iraqi invasion, Iraqi soldiers "entered the Adan Hospital in Fahaheel looking for hospital equipment to steal" and that "they unplugged the oxygen to the incubators supporting 22 premature babies and made off with the incubators" thus killing the 22 children.[29]
On October 9, at a Presidential news conference, Bush stated:
I thought
General Scowcroft [Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs] put it very well after the Amir left here. And I am very much concerned, not just about the physical dismantling but of the brutality that has now been written on by Amnesty International confirming some of the tales told us by the Amir of brutality. It's just unbelievable, some of the things at least he reflected. I mean, people on a dialysis machine cut off, the machine sent to Baghdad; babies in incubators heaved out of the incubators and the incubators themselves sent to Baghdad. Now, I don't know how many of these tales can be authenticated, but I do know that when the Amir was here he was speaking from the heart. And after that came
Amnesty International, who were debriefing many of the people at the border. And it's sickening.[30]
Advertising
Initially, most advertisers were ignoring the Middle East crisis in their ads.[31] It was noted that companies
selling information, such as news organizations, were running advertisements for their coverage of the conflict.[31]
Citizens for a Free Kuwait
The Citizens for a Free Kuwait was a
public relations committee set up by the Kuwaiti embassy, described by
The Times News as a "Washington, D.C.- based committee comprised of concerned Kuwaitis and Americans".[32][33] Though the committee occupied embassy office space, they were to be working independently of the embassy.[32]
Hill & Knowlton
In 1990, after being approached by a Kuwaiti expatriate in New York,
Hill & Knowlton took on "Citizens for a Free Kuwait."[34] The objective of the national campaign was to raise awareness in the United States about the dangers posed by Iraqi dictator, Saddam Hussein to Kuwait.[34]
Hill & Knowlton conducted a $1 million study to
determine the best way to win support for strong action.[35]
H & K had the Wirthington Group conduct focus groups to
determine the best strategy that would influence public opinion.[36]
The study found that an emphasis on atrocities, particularly the incubator story, was the most effective.
Hill & Knowlton is estimated to have been given as much as $12 million by the Kuwaitis for their public relations campaign.[37]
Nayirah (testimony) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia < click
In 1992, it was revealed that Nayirah's last name was al-Ṣabaḥ (Arabic: نيره الصباح) and that she was the daughter of Saud bin Nasir Al-Sabah, the Kuwaiti ambassador to the United States. Furthermore, it was revealed that her testimony was organized as part of the Citizens for a Free Kuwait public relations campaign which was run by Hill & Knowlton for the Kuwaiti government. Following this, al-Sabah's testimony has largely come to be regarded as wartime propaganda.
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