A profoundly disturbing tale of concoctions and deceptions,which makes you
wonder how much of what we watch and read nowadays is real and how much of
it surreal!!

Thanks, Mr.Sidibeh, for forwarding this eye-opener.

Regards, Basss.
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> Only later was it discovered that the testimony was untrue. H&K had failed
> to reveal that Nayirah was not only a member of the Kuwaiti royal family,
> but also that her father, Saud Nasir al-Sabah, was Kuwait's ambassador to
> the US. H&K had prepped Nayirah in her presentation, according to Harper's
> publisher John R MacArthur, in his book Second Front: Censorship and
> Propaganda in the Gulf War. Of the seven other witnesses who stepped to
the
> podium that day, five had been prepped by H&K and had used false names.
When
> human rights organizations investigated later, they could not find that
> Nayirah had any connection to the hospital. Amnesty International, among
> those originally duped, eventually issued an embarrassing retraction.
>

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