The false testimony organized by a hired PR Firm Hill and Knowlton cited numerous times to gain approval for the Gulf War. Class

Nayirah al-Ṣabaḥ (Arabic: نيره الصباح), called “Nurse Nayirah“ in the media, was a fifteen-year-old 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