Thursday, December 12, 2002

- Truth in the Crossfire - ‘Live from Baghdad’

When HBO airs “Live From Baghdad,” starting Dec. 7, the drama that purports to tell the true story of a cable news crew broadcasting during the Gulf War will propagate a proven lie. The film’s uncritical treatment of an old charge that Iraqi soldiers threw babies out of incubators, writes PNS contributor Lucy Komisar, is disturbing as America and Iraq lie on the brink of war. 

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec 04, 2002—Remember the phony story about the Kuwaiti woman who testified in 1990 that Iraqi soldiers were throwing Kuwaiti babies out of incubators? It was later exposed as a public relations fabrication—but now it’s back on HBO.

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