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The great Iraq War lie. The pictured girl told the world under tears
that she saw how Saddam Hussein's soldiers took babies out of their
incubators and let them die on the cold floor.
In Novembre 1990 Bush41 told this lie to the poor soldiers.
In truth she hadn't been in Kuwait at the time. The girl was in fact
the daughter of the Kuwaiti ambassador in Washington, USA.
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Here are some texts I compiled from the internet, which will give you
some clues:
How the public relations industry sold the Gulf War to the US, the
mother of all clients
Hill and Knowlton produced dozens of video news releases (VNRs) at a
cost of well over half a million dollars, but it was money well
spent, resulting in tens of millions of dollars worth of "free" air
time. The VNRs were shown by eager TV news directors around the world
who rarely (if ever) identified Kuwait's public relations (PR) firm
as the source of the footage and stories. TV stations and networks
simply fed the carefully-crafted propaganda to unwitting viewers, who
assumed they were watching "real" journalism. After the war Arthur
Rowse asked Hill & Knowlton to show him some of the VNRs, but the PR
company refused. Obviously the phony TV news reports had served their
purpose and it would do H&K no good to help a reporter reveal the
extent of deception. In Unreliable Sources, authors Martin Lee and
Norman Solomon noted that "when a research team from the
communications department of the University of Massachusetts surveyed
public opinion and correlated it with knowledge of basic facts about
U.S. policy in the region, they drew some sobering conclusions. The
more television people watched, the fewer facts they knew; and the
less people knew in terms of basic facts, the more likely they were
to back the Bush administration.1
Throughout the campaign, the Wirthlin Group conducted daily opinion
polls to help Hill & Knowlton take the emotional pulse of key
constituencies so it could identify the themes and slogans that would
be most effective in promoting support for U.S. military action.
After the war ended. the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation produced
an Emmy award-winning TV documentary on the PR campaign titled "To
Sell a War." The show featured an interview with Wirthlin executive
Dee Alsop in which Alsop bragged of his work and demonstrated how
audience surveys were even used to physically adapt the clothing and
hairstyle of the Kuwait ambassador so he would seem more likeable to
TV audiences. Wirthlin's job, Alsop explained, was "to identify the
messages that really resonate emotionally with the American people."
The theme that struck the deepest emotional chord, they discovered,
was "the fact that Saddam Hussein was a madman who had committed
atrocities even against his own people, and had tremendous power to
do further damage, and he needed to be stopped."2
Every big media event needs what journalist and flacks alike refer to
as "the hook." An ideal hook becomes the central element of a story
that makes it newsworthy, evokes a strong emotional response, and
sticks in the memory. In the case of the Gulf War, the "hook" was
invented by Hill & Knowlton. In style, substance and mode of
delivery, it bore an uncanny resemblance to England's World War I
hearings that accused German soldiers of killing babies.
On October 10, 1990, the Congressional Human Rights Caucus held a
hearing on Capitol Hill which provided the first opportunity for
formal presentations of Iraqi human rights violations. Outwardly, the
hearing resembled an official congressional proceeding, but
appearances were deceiving. In reality, the Human Rights Caucus,
chaired by California Democrat Tom Lantos and Illinois Republican
John Porter, was simply an association of politicians. Lantos and
Porter were co-chairs of the Congressional Human Rights Foundation, a
legally separate entity that occupied free office space valued at
$3,000 a year in Hill & Knowlton's Washington, DC office.
Notwithstanding its congressional trappings, the Congressional Human
Rights Caucus served as another Hill & Knowlton front group, which --
like all front groups -- used a noble-sounding name to disguise its
true purpose.3
Only a few astute observers noticed the hypocrisy in Hill &
Knowlton's use of the term "human rights." One of those observers was
John MacArthur, author of The Second Front, which remains the best
book written about the manipulation of the news media during the Gulf
War. In the fall of 1990, MacArthur reported, Hill & Knowlton's
Washington switchboard was simultaneously fielding calls for the
Human Rights Foundation and for "government representatives of
Indonesia, another H&K client. Like H&K client Turkey, Indonesia is a
practitioner of naked aggression, having seized . . . the former
Portuguese colony of East Timor in 1975. Since the annexation of East
Timor, the Indonesian government was killed, by conservative
estimate, about 100,000 inhabitants of the region.4
MacArthur also noticed another telling detail about the October 1990
hearings. "The Human Rights Caucus is not a committee of congress,
and therefore it is unencumbered by the legal accouterments that
would make a witness hesitate before he or she lied . . . Lying under
oath in front of a congressional committee is a crime; lying from
under the cover of anonymity to a caucus is merely public relations.5
In fact, the most emotionally moving testimony on October 10 came
from a 15-year-old Kuwaiti girl, known only by her first name of
Nayirah. According to the Caucus, Nayirah's full name was being kept
confidential to prevent Iraqi reprisals against her family in
occupied Kuwait. Sobbing, she described what she had seen with her
own eyes in a hospital in Kuwait City. Her written testimony was
passed out in a media kit prepared by Citizens for a Free Kuwait. "I
volunteered at the al-Addan hospital," Nayirah said. "While I was
there, I saw the Iraqi soldiers come into the hospital with guns, and
go into the room where . . . babies were in incubators. They took the
babies out of the incubators, took the incubators, and left the
babies on the cold floor to die."6
from http://www.io.com/~patrik/gulfwar2.htm
see also http://www.io.com/~patrik/gulfwar1.htm
The mother of all lies
Senator Faircloth.
OPENING STATEMENT OF SENATOR LAUCH FAIRCLOTH
Senator Faircloth. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
I want to thank you for holding this hearing. It's necessary and it's
going to serve an excellent purpose.
In the wake of the Gulf War, it is time we looked back to see what
was done wrong and what was done right. We can't change what was
done, but we will be accountable for what we do now.
My statement also gets to another cover-up of that conflict, not as
touching as the sick veterans, but well worth a review.
The Commerce Department has a lot of questions to answer about its
role leading up to the Gulf War. It is also time that we in the
Banking Committee revisit a current Commerce Department nominee --
Lauri Fitz-Pegado, who played a crucial role in shaping public
opinion toward U.S. involvement, and she did it by personally
orchestrating perjured testimony before Congress.
Mr. Chairman, in 1990, after the Iraqi invasion of their country, the
Kuwaiti government in exile formed Citizens for a Free Kuwait. They
hired the lobbying firm of Hill and Knowlton to influence public
opinion in this country toward entering the conflict. Lauri Fitz-
Pegado was in charge of the effort.
Her strategy was to use alleged witnesses to atrocities, to tell
stories of human rights violations in occupied Kuwait. Using their
testimony, she orchestrated what has come to be known as the Baby
Incubator Fraud.
She first coached a 15-year-old Kuwaiti girl, identified only at the
time as Naira, to testify before Congress that she had seen Iraqi
soldiers remove Kuwaiti babies from hospital respirators. Naira
claimed to be a refugee who had been working as a volunteer in a
Kuwaiti hospital throughout the first few weeks of the Iraqi
occupation. She said that she had seen them take babies out of the
incubators, take the incubators, and leave the babies ``on the cold
floor to die.''
Naira's emotional testimony riveted human rights organizations, the
news mediums, and the Nation. That incident was cited by six Members
of the U.S. Senate as reasons to go to war with Iraq.
However, it was later discovered that the girl was in fact the
daughter of the Kuwaiti ambassador to the United States. It turns out
that Lauri Fitz-Pegado had concealed Naira's real identity. Since
then, reputable human rights organizations and journalists have
concluded that the baby incubator story was an outright fabrication.
Every study commissioned by the Kuwaiti government could not produce
a shred of evidence that the ambassador's daughter had been back in
occupied Kuwait to do volunteer work in a hospital. It was a total
fabrication.
Lauri Fitz-Pegado then put on a repeat performance in front of the
U.S. Security Council on November 27, 1990. In the testimony before
Congress, they claimed they couldn't fully identify who the witness
was because they wanted to protect her family that supposedly was
still trapped in Kuwait. But, in fact, they were here on Embassy Row.
In front of the United Nations, Lauri Fitz-Pegado abandoned that
pretense and instead employed witnesses who testified using false
names and occupations. The most important of these phony witnesses
was a man who called himself Dr. Ebrahim. With Lauri Fitz-Pegado
there in New York, he claimed to have personally buried 40 babies
pulled from incubators by the Iraqis. Dr. Ebrahim told the Security
Council that he was a surgeon. But after the war, when the scam was
exposed as a total fraud, he admitted to being a dentist and had
never buried any babies or seen any. More lies.
The Fitz-Pegado scam continues. Mr. Chairman, as a supporter of our
country's involvement in the Gulf War, I am offended that Lauri Fitz-
Pegado believes that those kinds of illegal and unethical activities
were necessary to get this country to face the threat of Saddam
Hussein. None of these facts and allegations were disclosed to either
you, Mr. Chairman, or other Members of the Banking Committee when her
nomination was voted on here.
If confirmed, Lauri Fitz-Pegado would have control over a global
network of 200 trade offices in 70 countries. My opposition is based
not on party or ideology. It is based on the fact that there are few
people in America who have less business being in charge of our
Nation's trade secrets than Lauri Fitz-Pegado.
Lauri Fitz-Pegado's nomination should be returned to the Banking
Committee for further review. If it is not, then facts that are far
more embarrassing to Ms. Fitz-Pegado and to others in Government will
be revealed in other speeches and in long, protracted debate on the
Senate floor.
Mr. Chairman, the Banking Committee was hoodwinked by a professional
scam artist. Lauri Fitz-Pegado should be asked to disclose her entire
past and then be prepared to defend what I believe is a totally
indefensible past.
I thank you, Mr. Chairman.
I am not sure whether this is a hoax-page or what... the names of the
speakers sound like hoax to me:
Senator NightHorse Campbell (I hope s/he is North American Indian!)
Lauri Fitz-Pegado ( a new racing car model!)
LAUCH FAIRCLOTH (in german "Lauch" means: "leek" )
CHRISTOPHER S. BOND (Son of James Bond)
Dr. Theodore Prociv ( Prociv Prozac ? )
Dr. John Kriese (german Krise: "crisis" )
John M. Shalikashvili ( sounds like a balkan meat-dish)
Mr. Dorn (german "spike" "prick")
Ltc. Vicki Merriman ( yippiiee )
anyway, its a good conspiracy theory and stems from http://
www.chronicillnet.org/PGWS/tuite/hearings.html
THE INCUBATOR LIE
The day after Iraq invaded Kuwait, the Kuwaitis living in the US
hired the public relations firm Hill and Knowlton - a job worth $1
million a month. This was the biggest ever contract in the history of
public relations to improve the image of their corrupt, oil-rich regime.
The story of how Iraqi troops, in the first days of the invasion,
went into Al-Adan hospital, tore the sick babies from incubators and
left them on the cold floor to die was graphically told to Congress
on November 1990 before the crucial vote to send US troops (passed by
about 5 votes).
What the audience didn't know however was that the 15-year old girl
who made the moving, tearful testimony was none other than Niyirah al-
Sabah - daughter of the US Ambassador to Kuwait. She had allegedly
worked as a volunteer in the maternity ward of the hospital. But
nurses who live in the two story white building opposite the hospital
in Kuwait City claimed that they had never seen the girl before in
their life.
The entire move towards the Gulf War had thus been motivated by a
blatant lie. The girl had been "trained" by Hill and Knowlton. The
renowned international human rights group Amnesty International took
out full-page newspaper spreads to publicise the babies incident. It
had unwittingly (and not for the first time) transformed itself from
a charity to a propaganda tool. Andrew Whitley of Middle East Watch
described the story as a fabrication but it took months for the truth
to come out. President Bush mentioned the incubator incident in five
of his speeches and seven senators referred to them in speeches
backing a pro-war resolution.
Highly exaggerated reports of thousands of deaths were accepted
uncritically, as the PR firm using Kuwaiti contacts inside the
country smuggled 24 videotapes to a hungry, unquestioning and
gullible mass media.
From http://hydraulix.bangor.ac.uk/nus/islam/pages/reports/gulf.html
and finally, here is a quite bizarre write-up, real fundamentalist
christian loonie stuff, but it is worth a read ...
... understand the importance of technology to the forces of Anti-
Christ. New Age writers are quite bold in their plans to deceive the
peoples of the world into believing in Maitreya as the Christ. The
boldest publication of these Plans is in a book by Peter Lemesurier,
The Armageddon Script. Lemesurier states, on page 236, "...even
during the Exodus itself, the semi-legendary Cloud of the Presence
may, like the equally-legendary pillar of fire and smoke...have been
some kind of technological phenomenon. Certainly, therefore, the use
of such special effects should not be ruled out on this occasion [the
appearance of Maitreya the Christ]. The world's news-media can be
counted upon to do the rest."
In other words, the world's news media would occupy an important role
in convincing the peoples of the world that Maitreya is the Christ
and is worthy of worship and obedience. When I first read these words
of The Armageddon Script, I believed that Lemesurier was merely
counting on the natural aggressiveness of the world's news media to
contribute to the believability of Maitreya the Christ. After I share
this following information with you, however, I am sure you will
agree with my assessment that the owners of the mass media will be
active participants in the Plan of Deception concerning Maitreya the
Christ.
NEWS BRIEF: TV Guide, February 22-28, 1992, "Fake News", "Over the
last few years, fake news has grown into big business. Every day PR
(Public Relations) pros supply the country's 700-plus local TV
outlets and the national net-works with news-like reports and
features...Most material... arrives as a 'video news release (VNR)'.
This is a collection of pictures and words, delivered free of charge
by satellite or cassette, which usually includes everything from
background shots that can be edited into a story to a fully produced
piece ready to air."
In other words, these 'Video News Releases' (VNR'S) are not
spontaneous news which has been recorded, nor is it on-scene news
reporting; rather, it is carefully planned and executed acting,
designed to look like spontaneous news. TV stations, both national
and local, are running these VNR'S as though they were really news,
even to the point of showing the TV logo at the bottom of the screen
during the time of transmission. And viewers are being deceived.
There are many types of VNR's currently being utilized:
* Private companies, such as General Mills, advertising their
products, or introducing new products.
* Sporting events
* Disney World issues many VNR's.
* Pharmaceutical companies
* Hollywood promotional clips for new films
How often are TV stations and networks using VNR's? "Roughly 80% of
the country's news directors acknowledge that they employ VNR
material at least several times a month ...If anything, this
statistic probably understates how commonly the PR-produced material
airs...newscasters may carry a piece produced by someone else,
without knowing that the original story included VNR footage." (p.
16, 26). This incredible information means that VNR material is being
passed off as spontaneous news or as journalism produced by the
network every evening of the week!! We are being lied to every day by
our newscasters.
However, we would be only outraged that TV stations and networks
would violate the trust which we have given them;
(oops, the author is a lunatic ! ... the webmaster)
we would not become alarmed as to a possible threat to our freedoms
because Government is not getting into the act.
Right? Wrong!!!
This article continues to expose the ways in which the Government is
utilizing VNR's to deceive us. First, several campaigns for President
are creating VNR's which are then passed off by the TV networks as
spontaneous news. Presidential Candidates Bill Clinton and Bob Kerry
are singled out as using VNR's. Thus, these professionally produced
mini-films are being used to pervert our election process. The
situation is becoming serious. Then, the TV Guide editors really hit
close to home.
"President Bush...recently hired former Nightline executive producer
Dorrance Smith to handle his media. Since then, Bush has gone to the
skies to conduct interviews with TV stations in New Hampshire, Los
Angeles, and New York, among other places." (p. 16). Our elected
President, with whom we have collectively entrusted our lives, is now
utilizing fake news to deceive us. We have been warning you for
months that the Bible ...
( oops ... they are bible bashers ... holy cow ! .. the webmaster )
... pointedly tells us that deception will be the hallmark sign of
the End of the Age, and that the appearance of Anti-Christ ...
( The Ahriman, Beelzebub, AntiChrist and Satan Hussein, holy moly,
aint dis da truth ... now we're talking ... its becoming
amusing !! .. the webmaster )
... will be accompanied by the lie that the world is going to
experience Peace and Safety. We have also been warning you that
President Bush is not to be trusted, that he is very different in his
heart than he is on the carefully-prepared media surface. But,
finally, Bush cannot be trusted because he is an adept in the Satanic
Secret Society, Skull and Bones, a Brotherhood of Death Society on
the par with the Thule Society in which Adolf Hitler trained.
( sounds fantastic, but sadly, these are rants based on reality. But
lets read on... its somewhat entertaining ... .. the webmaster )
But, this article shares an even more damaging piece of information
as to how President Bush and his Administration has utilized this new
technique of Video News Release (VNR). "...Some portions of the
Persian Gulf war effort were stage-managed in an effort to rally
public opinion for military action against Iraq." (p. 11).
Several examples of this manipulation of public opinion on behalf of
the war effort were offered:
(1). ABC's 20/20 and CBS's 60 Minutes showed "coverage" of an
emotional hearing before Congress by an anonymous Kuwaiti refugee
girl. This girl testified that Iraqi soldiers had stormed Kuwaiti
hospitals and seized incubators to be shipped back to Iraq. In many
instances, these incubators were occupied by Kuwaiti newborn babies.
These Iraqi soldiers threw these babies out of the incubators, thus
dooming them to death. President Bush used this incident in several
of his speeches to create public support for his war plans. The
terrifying truth with this testimony is that this poor refugee girl
was the daughter of Kuwait's ambassador to the U.S., and that her
entire testimony "had, in fact, been rehearsed before video cameras".
By whom were these manufactured films created? By a public-relations
firm named Hill and Knowlton, whose director was Craig Fuller, former
chief of staff to George Bush when he was Vice-President.
(2). Kuwaiti refugees shared stories with the news media concerning
Iraqi atrocities. "Those with the most compelling tales -- and the
ones most in keeping with the agenda of Hill and Knowlton's client --
were made available to news organizations, thus limiting journalist's
ability to independently assess claims of brutalities. Indeed, the PR
firm's operatives were given free reign to travel unescorted
throughout Saudi Arabia, while journalists were severely
restricted." (p. 12).
At this point, we must realize that the American military had created
these severe restrictions on journalists. Therefore, the special
treatment of film crews for the Video News Release organizations had
to come from the same American military. And who is the Commander of
the American military? President George Bush.
This article lists several more instances in which this type of
professional film making was utilized to manipulate American public
opinion. Outright lies were told, to the full knowledge of many in
our Federal Government, including Congress, and not one elected or
appointed Governmental official told the truth.
Ain't that the truth ;-) ... the webmaster
We believe this is precisely what will occur during the appearance of
the Anti-Christ.
Aaaaahhh ... now come on ... How can the Anti-Christ be any worse?
Will he be a kind of evil Hulk Hogan that single-handedly strangles
all the good and honest people? ;-) ... the webmaster
Both TV networks and Governmental officials across the world will
knowingly cooperate to manipulate public opinion, to convince the
peoples of the world that Maitreya is who he will claim to be and
that he is worthy to be worshipped. The sudden appearance of this
duplicity by present Governmental officials is just one more sign
that the Great Tribulation is very close.
from http://www.cuttingedge.org/ce1016.html
Well, sadly there are MANY people in the USA (patriot militia types)
that believe the Anti-christ stuff and that the United Nations is the
enemy and that Bush want a World government, and all that utter utter
nonsense. These people have a sense that something is very wrong,
that they have been lied to massively and the mostly holy rules of
the United States of America, the amendments to the constitution are
ignored. (try free expression of opinion in wartime.)
These people are rightfully angry. But arming yourself is not the way
to go. How about voting for Ralph Nader? Or better, organise
yourselves and run the municipalities by free agreement amongst
equals. Local Councils do most of the investment. Visit Germany where
much of this was already achieved (3 years paid parental leave by law!).
Read and listen to Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, John Ralston Saul and
Micheal Parenti, and use alternative currencies (read Lietaer) and
you will see how beautiful things can run, if the values and the
power stays where YOU are.
Back to the topic at hand:
More recently the same 'Public Relations' Agency Hill & Knowlton was
hired by the KLA (Kosovo Liberation Army). Imagine if the Taliban had
used the services of this PR company.
...meanwhile, back at the farm ...
You MUST read Chomsky
and certainly hear this from here.
The truth about the war in Afghanistan is simple: The unelected USA-
rulers (Corporations, Banks, General Electric etc) want Turkmenistan
Afghanistan Pakistan-pipeline Oil profits. Otherwise the Caspian Oil
profits will be under control of Iran, Russia or China.
Afghanistan Pipeline Map (read this Article) ... Kosovo Mazedonia
Pipeline Map (Article)
More information: here and here ...
Click here to go back to the main page.
Keywords:
Knill and Holton Holl and Knilton Nilton Holton Nolton Noltan Noll
Hilton Knolton Nollton Nolltn Noltn Bill and Bolten Bolton anarchrist
anarchist capitalism marxist marxism ... Oh baby blue ... What do you
read the source-code for? Well, you probably can think properly like
a human should ... try this:
Everything that lives, does so under the
categorical condition of decisively interfering
in the life of someone else....
To do away with this reciprocal influence is tantamount
to death. And in demanding the freedom of the masses
we do not intend to do away with natural influences to
which man is subjected by individuals and groups.
All we want is to do away with is factitious legitimized
influences, to do away with the privileges
in exerting influence."
Michael Bakunin
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