“…In 1990 a young girl offered a heart wrenching testimony to how Iraqi soldiers had forced their way into a maternity ward in Kuwait, how they’d destroyed the islolettes and left newborn and premature infants to die. She called herself Nayira. Her testimony made a tremendous impression and it had a huge emotionally impact in the first Gulf War against Iraq. The problem was, though: the story was a hoax. Nayira was the daughter of Kuwait’s ambassador to USA. Her testimony was produced by a PR agency, and what she told had no root in reality…” — Wikipedia.
This story has everything. Young, crying girl, premature infants, barbarian soldiers. As Frank Zappa would have said: It is carefully designed to suck…
Source: The art of storytelling in times of war
Interesting.
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Nice to read someone writing some facts about the Ukrainian fascists for a change.
Believing the News to be a fact is something I learned to stop doing during the late 1960s. The Vietnam War made me see sense.
Best wishes, Pete.
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