{"id":65368,"date":"2002-12-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2002-12-06T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2002\/12\/06\/recyclage\/"},"modified":"2002-12-06T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2002-12-06T00:00:00","slug":"recyclage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/2002\/12\/06\/recyclage\/","title":{"rendered":"Recyclage?<\/em><\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"

Recyclage?<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n

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\t6 d\u00e9cembre 2002 Une analyse du groupe FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting Media) met en \u00e9vidence les conditions o\u00f9 le plus fameux montage de la pr\u00e9paration \u00e0 la premi\u00e8re guerre du Golfe serait \u00e0 nouveau utilis\u00e9 implicitement, ou d’une fa\u00e7on ambigu\u00eb. (Il s’agit du montage, r\u00e9alis\u00e9 par la firme de relations publiques Hill & Knowlton, sur la tuerie de b\u00e9b\u00e9s komaitis dans un h\u00f4pital de la capitale du Koweit par des soldats irakiens. Hill & Knowlton travaillait pour le Koweit, pour un contrat de $20 millions. FAIR rappelle les circonstances de cette affaire dans sa pr\u00e9sentation ci-dessous.)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tFAIR a diffus\u00e9 ce texte , qui rapporte les circonstances de cet \u00e9ventuel recyclage de l’affaire des b\u00e9b\u00e9s koweitis :<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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HBO Recycling Gulf War Hoax?<\/h3>\n<\/p>\n

\tDecember 4, 2002<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tThe fraudulent story of Iraqi soldiers throwing Kuwaiti babies out of incubators during the occupation of Kuwait in 1990 is depicted as if it were true in "Live from Baghdad," the HBO film premiering on the cable network this Saturday that purports to tell the story behind CNN’s coverage of the Gulf War. HBO and CNN are both owned by the AOL Time Warner media conglomerate.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tIn the months before the Gulf War began, media uncritically repeated the claim that Iraqi soldiers were removing Kuwaiti babies from incubators. The story was launched by the testimony of a 15-year-old Kuwaiti girl before the Congressional Human Rights Caucus in October 1990. Eventually, as repeated in the media by the first President Bush and countless others, it blossomed into a tale involving over 300 Kuwaiti babies. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tWhat was not reported at the time was the fact that the public relations company Hill & Knowlton was partly behind the effort, and the girl who testified was actually the daughter of the Kuwaiti ambassador to Washington. Subsequent investigations, including one by Amnesty International, found no evidence for the claims (ABC World News Tonight, 3\/15\/91).<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tIn the film, the story is turned upside down, portrayed as a deft public relations move by the Iraqi government, who grant CNN access to Kuwait in a calculated attempt to discredit the rumors that their soldiers were pulling babies from incubators. CNN reporters are ushered to a hospital in Kuwait, where a doctor, under obvious pressure from Iraqi soldiers, tells the reporters that no babies had been pulled from the incubators. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tThe CNN team does not believe the obviously nervous doctor is telling the truth, and the Iraqi officials pick up on this, promptly cutting the interview short. The scene ends with the doctor being led away by Iraqi officials. Moments later, the CNN crew listens to a BBC report on the radio that suggests that CNN had debunked the story of Iraqi soldiers killing Kuwaiti babies, and CNN’s reporters are upset that they’ve been used by the Iraqi officials.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tThe key exchange happens as follows:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tCNN correspondent: You are aware of the allegations, doctor?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tDoctor: I have heard these stories.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tCNN producer Ingrid Formanek (whisper): This sucks. He’s scared. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tCNN producer Robert Wiener (whisper): Yeah, this is bad.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tDoctor: I can tell you, nothing has happened at this hospital… that I know.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tCorrespondent: But at other hospitals?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tDoctor: I cannot tell about other hospitals.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tIraqi handler: Finish! Finish! We go now!<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tFormanek: To the other hospitals?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tHandler: No, back to Baghdad!<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tWiener: Hey, hey, that was part of the deal!<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tHandler: That is story.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tThe clear implication is that the CNN reporters were used by the Iraqi government to make a true story of atrocities seem false. A review of the movie in the Indianapolis Star (12\/1\/02) arrived at that very conclusion, noting that CNN "played into the Iraqis’ hands on a couple of occasions, including an ill-fated trip to Kuwait where the Iraqis used the CNN crew to counter reports that their soldiers had been removing Kuwaiti babies from hospital incubators and leaving them on the floor to die."<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t"Live from Baghdad" is a dramatization, not a documentary, but it is being presented by HBO as a "behind-the-scenes true story" of the Gulf War and is being released at a crucial political moment. HBO’s version of history never makes clear that the incubator story was fraudulent, and in fact had been managed by an American PR firm, not Iraq. Curiously, however, the truth seems to have been clear to Robert Wiener, the former CNN producer who co-wrote "Live from Baghdad." As he explained to CNN’s Wolf Blitzer (11\/21\/02), "that story turned out to be false because those accusations were made by the daughter of the Kuwaiti minister of information and were never proven."<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\tUnfortunately, HBO viewers won’t know that when they see the film.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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