Opinion | Remember Nayirah, Witness for Kuwait? (Published 1992)
www.nytimes.com/1992/01/06/opinion/remember-nayirah-witness-for-kuwait.html
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the most sensational one -- that Iraqi soldiers removed hundreds of Kuwaiti babies from incubators and left them to die on hospital floors
e interviewed hospital doctors who stayed in Kuwait throughout the occupati
But before the war, the incubator story seriously distorted the American debate about whether to support military action. Amnesty International believed the tale, and its ill-considered validation of the charges likely influenced the seven U.S. Senators who cited the story in speeches supporting the Jan. 12 resolution authorizing war.
Amnesty International later retracted its support of the story.
an ABC reporter, John Martin,
Nayirah," the 15-year-old Kuwaiti girl who shocked the Congressional Human Rights Caucus on Oct. 10, 1990, when she tearfully asserted that she had watched 15 infants being taken from incubators in Al-Adan Hospital in Kuwait City by Iraqi soldiers who "left the babies on the cold floor to die." T
Nayirah, her real name, is the daughter of the Kuwaiti Ambassador to the U.S., Saud Nasir al-Sabah.
hy Mr. Lantos and Mr. Porter allowed such glaring omissions? What made Nayirah so believable that no one on the caucus staff bothered to check out her story?
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