Image from: An academic study of spin http://cb3blog.wordpress.com/Remember the Incubator Story and the Dodgy Dossier story?
In 1991, a Kuwaiti girl claimed that she had seen the murder of Kuwaiti children by Iraqi soldiers.
"They took the babies out of the incubator ... and left the babies to die on the cold floor," she said.
The public relations firm Hill and Knowlton arranged this testimony.
The incubator story turned out to be untrue.
Kuwaiti girl 'Nayirah' testifying before Congress.In September 2002, the UK government produced the 'Dodgy Dossier' which claimed that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction.
This dossier, which was a load of nonsense, was written by Paul Hamill.
On 6 March 2010, the Mail on Sunday (UK) reported that Paul Hamill, the Dodgy dossier aide, now works for Hill and Knowlton, the White House lobbying firm.
The intelligence dossier produced by Paul Hamill "included out-of-date research cut and pasted from the internet."
It was "crudely cobbled together from magazine articles and an out-of-date thesis by an American student."
Paul Hamill is now Director of Government Services at Hill & Knowlton, America’s most influential lobbying firm.
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