New York: A year after the United Nations-authorised war against Iraq, an American newspaper on Jan. 6 disclosed how an “almost certainly false” account of human rights abuse by President Saddam Hussein was allowed to influence the United States Congress’s decision to back American military involvement. In an article published by The New York Times, an American author described how U.S. Congressmen accepted without questioning “the most sensational” claim about Iraqi soldiers removing hundreds of Kuwaiti babies from incubators and leaving them to die on hospital floors. Amnesty International, the famed monitor of human rights abuses around the world, validated the charges, albeit it retracted its “ill-considered” support of the tale afterwards, according to John Mc Carthur.But before the war, the incubator story seriously distorted the American debate about whether to support military action, said McCarthur, publisher of Harpers Magazine and author of the forthcoming “Second Front Censorship and Propaganda in the Gulf war”. (Hindu Jan. 7).
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