>From: Bass Drammeh <[log in to unmask]> >Reply-To: The Gambia and related-issues mailing list <[log in to unmask]> >To: [log in to unmask] >Subject: Re: Fwd:Reminder!!! >Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 17:35:16 +0300 > >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. >**************************************************************** > > 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. > > > >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > >To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L Web interface >at: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/gambia-l.html >To contact the List Management, please send an e-mail to: >[log in to unmask] > >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~