Nayirah Kuwaiti girl testimony
Nayirah alṢabaḥ (Arabic: نيره الصباح), called Nurse Nayirah in the media, was a fifteenyearold Kuwaiti girl, who alleged that she had witnessed the murder of infant children by Iraqi soldiers in Kuwait, in verbal testimony to the U. S. Congress, in the run up to the 1991 Gulf War. Her testimony, which was regarded as credible at the time, has since come to be regarded as wartime propaganda. The public relations firm Hill Knowlton, which was in the employ of Citizens for a Free Kuwait, had arranged th
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