August 22, 2013
This testimony, later revealed to be complete fiction, is wartime propaganda used to justify the military invasion of Iraq in 1990.
(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. )
This article was posted: Thursday, August 22, 2013 at 11:54 am
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