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Last year, the U.S. government accepted the testimony of a single, unidentified teenage Kuwaiti female that Iraqi soldiers were removing babies from their incubators and leaving them in the streets to die. The image became a powerful one in discussions about the war, a sort of mantra for Bush's repeated justifications of the eventual ground assault...
...identity of this source whose testimony has such a dramatic effect on provoking concerted condemnation of Iraqi atrocities has been revealed in recent months. She is the daughter of the Kuwaiti ambassador...
Clearly, the U.S. government concealed her name because reporters would have challenged the legitimacy of her allegations if they had known that she was a direct relative of a high-ranking Kuwaiti official and a member of the Al-Sabah ruling family of Kuwait...
More troublingly, the administration continues to question the veracity of the testimony of thousands of Haitian refugees. Where were these vigilant watchdogs when a lone kuwaiti teenager was telling tales of atrocities committed by Iraqi soldiers...
...repatriated refugees will, of course, suffer the most dire consequences of this heartless policy. If the administration can trust the testimony of one self-interested Kuwaiti teenager, then shouldn't they believe the words of dozens of "double-backers" and the desperate actions of thousands of other Haitian refugees...