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	Welcome to the Middle East Polcy Council web site.
		Kuwait's regional allies proved to be ambivalent in their support and reluctant to come to its defense.
		Kuwait is in financial straits, stemming from the high cost of war and reconstruction coupled with years of depressed earnings from low oil prices, a situation that only recently has changed.
		Its application in Kuwait is described in Adel Asem and Haya al-Mughni, "Claiming for Compensation Through the United Nations Compensation Commission: The Case of Kuwait," paper presented at the International Conference on the Effects of the Iraqi Aggression on Kuwait, Kuwait, April 1994.
	www.mepc.org /journal_vol7/0006_tetreault.asp (5613 words)

	The Selling of the Gulf War--Part One
		The, as now, Kuwait's ruling oligarchy brutally suppressed the country's small democracy movement, intimidated and censored journalists, and hired desperate foreigners to supply most of the nation's physical labor under conditions of indentured servitude and near-slavery.
		The wealthy young men of Kuwait's ruling class were know as spoiled party boys in university cities and national capitals from Cairo to Washington.2 Unlike Grenada and Panama, Iraq had a substantial army that could not be subdued in a mere weekend of fighting.
		Citizens for a Free Kuwait also capi- talized on the publication of a quickie 154-page book about Iraqi atrocities titled The Rape of Kuwait, copies of which were stuffed into media kits and then featured on TV talk shows and the Wall Street Journal.
	www.io.com /~patrik/gulfwar1.htm (1263 words)

	Citizens for a Free Kuwait - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The wealthy young men of Kuwait's ruling class were known as spoiled party boys in university cities and national capitals from Cairo to Washington.
		Citizens for a Free Kuwait also capitalized on the publication of a quickie 154-page book about Iraqi atrocities titled The Rape of Kuwait, copies of which were stuffed into media kits and then featured on TV talk shows and the Wall Street Journal.
		Her father, in fact, was Saud Nasir al-Sabah, Kuwait's Ambassador to the US, who sat listening in the hearing room during her testimony.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Citizens_for_a_Free_Kuwait (2357 words)

	Kuwait
		Kuwaiti citizens constitute only 34% of the country's population of 2.9 million, and enjoy the benefits of a generous social welfare system that guarantees employment, housing, education and medical care.
		Although Kuwait has an extensive and modern system of well-lit roads, excessive speeding on both primary and secondary roads, coupled with lax enforcement of traffic regulations and a high density of vehicles (one vehicle for every 2.8 residents), leads to frequent and often fatal accidents.
		When a driver flashes his/her high beams in Kuwait, it is meant as a request to move your car into a slower lane to allow the driver with the flashing beams to proceed ahead.
	travel.state.gov /travel/kuwait.html (2598 words)

	Index of Economic Freedom 2006 - Kuwait
		Kuwait, a small constitutional monarchy that gained its independence from Britain in 1961, is endowed with 96 billion barrels of oil reserves—roughly 10 percent of the world's oil supply.
		Kuwait's informal market score is 0.5 point worse this year; however, its fiscal burden of government score is 0.2 point better, and its capital flows and foreign investment score is 1 point better.
		According to the World Bank, Kuwait's weighted average tariff rate in 2002 (the most recent year for which World Bank data are available) was 3.9 percent, up from the 3.6 percent average tariff for 2003 reported in the 2005 Index, based on World Bank data.
	www.heritage.org /research/features/index/country.cfm?id=Kuwait (1121 words)

	Kuwait Country Analysis Brief (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Kuwait also is considering construction of a new refinery at Azour, with possible capacity of 450,000-600,000 bbl/d (and at a cost of $2.5 billion), which would begin operation around 2010, replacing the Shuaiba refinery, which is the country's oldest and least technologically advanced.
		Equate II is to have ethylene capacity of 850,000 t/y, ethylene glycol/ethyleneoxide capacity of 600,000 t/y, and polyethylene capacity of 450,000 t/y.
		Kuwait produces a relatively modest volume of natural gas (around 293 billion cubic feet -- Bcf -- in 2002), the vast majority of which is "associated gas" (i.e., found and produced in conjunction with oil).
	www.eia.doe.gov /emeu/cabs/kuwait.html (4742 words)

	Lauri J. Fitz-Pegado - SourceWatch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Lauri J. Fitz-Pegado, best known for her role in the Hill and Knowlton PR firm's deceptive PR campaign under the name Citizens for a Free Kuwait to promote Operation Desert Storm on behalf of the government of Kuwait, has a long history of ties to work for government and corporate elites.
		Following the invasion and occupation of Kuwait by Iraq in August 1990, the Kuwaiti government-in-exile hired Hill and Knowlton to lead a PR campaign in support of military action by the United States aimed at recapturing the country.
		HandK established Citizens for a Free Kuwait, a front group for the government-in-exile.
	www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=Lauri_Fitz-Pegado (839 words)

	Kuwait-America Foundation
		Its mission, inspired by Kuwait's liberation by Allied Coalition forces in the Gulf War, is to express gratitude for American sacrifice during the Gulf War and strengthen ties among the peoples of the two countries.
		All KAF events and programs communicate the sincere desire to the people of Kuwait to have a lasting and strong relationship at a grass-roots level with the United States.
		Daniel Q. Callister, Esq., who were involved in the Citizens for a Free Kuwait campaign in Washington D.C. during the Iraqi occupation of Kuwait.
	www.kuwaitamerica.org /index.htm (178 words)

	Citizens for a Free Kuwait - SourceWatch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Citizens for a Free Kuwait (CFK) was a front group established by the Hill and Knowlton PR firm to promote the 1991 U.S. war in the Persian Gulf (Operation Desert Storm).
		Sam Zakhem, a former US ambassador to the oil-rich gulf state of Bahrain, funneled $7.7 million in advertising and lobbying dollars through two front groups, the Coalition for Americans at Risk and the Freedom Task Force.
		Nine days after Saddam's army marched into Kuwait, the Emir's government agreed to fund a contract under which Hill and Knowlton would represent Citizens for a Free Kuwait, a classic PR front group designed to hide the real role of the Kuwaiti government and its collusion with the Bush administration.
	www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=Citizens_for_a_Free_Kuwait (2611 words)

	How PR Sold the Gulf War : SF Indymedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The wealthy young men of Kuwait's ruling class were known as spoiled party boys in university cities and national capitals from Cairo to Washington.70
		Nine days after Saddam's army marched into Kuwait, the Emir's government agreed to fund a contract under which Hill & Knowlton would represent "Citizens for a Free Kuwait," a classic PR front group designed to hide the real role of the Kuwaiti government and its collusion with the Bush administration.
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	sf.indymedia.org /mail.php?id=1581912 (2808 words)

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		Nayirah's full name was being kept confidential, it was said, and to prevent Iraqi reprisals against her family in occupied Kuwait.
		Her father, in fact, was Saud Nasir al-Sabah, Kuwait's Ambassador to the US, who sat listening in the hearing room during her testimony to Congress.
		In addition, you know that she wasn't in Kuwait at the time she said she was in her testimony.
	commfaculty.fullerton.edu /lester/courses/517/kuwaitcase.html (616 words)

	No More Fake News Archives
		Kuwait was not actually a model of a free nation.
		Stauber: “Nine days after Saddam’s army marched into Kuwait, the Emir’s government [of Kuwait] agreed to fund a contract under which Hill and Knowlton would represent ‘Citizens for a Free Kuwait,’ a classic PR front group designed to hide the real role of the Kuwaiti government and its collusion with the Bush administration.”
		Her family back in Kuwait would be in danger, from the Iraqi forces, if the full name were revealed.
	www.nomorefakenews.com /archives/archiveview.php?key=368 (1136 words)

	Hill & Knowlton - Australian Federal government show where their interests LIE, (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		CFK had sprung into action on August 2, the day Iraq invaded Kuwait.
		CFK reported to the Justice Department receipts of $17,861 from 78 individual U.S. and Canadian contributors and $11.8 million from the Kuwaiti government.
		HandK distributed tens of thousands of Free Kuwait bumper stickers and T-shirts, as well as thousands of media kits extolling the alleged virtues of Kuwaiti society and history.
	www.country-liberal-party.com /PARIAH-FLASH/pages/Hill-and-Knowlton.htm (2195 words)

	How the public relations industry sold the Gulf War to the U.S. -- The mother of all clients By John Stauber and ...
		The wealthy young men of Kuwait's ruling class were know as spoiled party boys in university cities and national capitals from Cairo to Washington.
		Nine days after Saddam's army marched into Kuwait, the Emir's government agreed to fund a contract under which Hill and Knowlton would represent "Citizens for a Free Kuwait" (CFK) a classic PR front group designed to hide the real role of the Kuwaiti government and its collusion with the Bush administration.
		Lantos and Porter were co-chairs of the Congressional Human Rights Foundation, a legally separate entity that occupied free office space valued at $3,000 a year in Hill and Knowlton's Washington, DC office.
	www.whale.to /b/stauber.html (3088 words)

	Newsletter Page
		But there are usually sizeable minorities of citizens concerned that all avenues for peace have not been fully explored and, although the mainstream media ignores or plays down their protests, these have to be dampened down unless they gain strength.
		An organisation calling itself Citizens for a Free Kuwait (financed by the Kuwaiti government in exile) had signed a 10 million dollar contract with the giant American public relations company, Hill and Knowlton, to campaign for American military intervention to oust Iraq from Kuwait.
		John R Macarthur's study of propaganda in the war says that the babies atrocity was a definitive moment in the campaign to prepare the American public for the need to go to war.
	hometown.aol.com /Taocontractor/myhomepage/newsletter.html (5763 words)

	Niagara Falls Reporter
		The world was outraged, and the administration of former President George H.W. Bush and the government of Kuwait had just the right hook and public relations plan to show the world Saddam was a demon of the desert who had to be stopped.
		Within days of the Iraqi invasion, as Americans were being pumped up for war, the government of Kuwait formed a front group, Citizens for a Free Kuwait.
		She was, in fact, the daughter of Sheik Saud Nasir al-Sabah, Kuwait's Ambassador to the United States.
	www.niagarafallsreporter.com /gallagher83.html (1365 words)

	The U.S. Invasion of Iraq: Five Years After
		To facilitate this new image, the public relations firm Hill and Knowlton was hired for $10.7 million by Citizens for a Free Kuwait, an organization formed after the Iraqi invasion to represent the Kuwaiti government in exile.
		The Hill and Knowlton propaganda campaign bought a Kuwait Information Day on twenty college campuses, a national day of prayer for Kuwait observed in churches nationwide, the distribution of tens of thousands of Free Kuwait bumper stickers and T-shirts, and thousands of press kits extolling the alleged virtues of Kuwaiti society.
		Few were familiar with the history of the oil-rich monarchy of Kuwait, such as the establishment of a British base in 1793, the establishment of a puppet government, the dominion under British colonial forces from 1899-1961, and the 1961 British aggression towards the legitimate long-standing Iraqi claims to this region.
	www.chss.montclair.edu /english/furr/Vietnam/gulf-war-fingrut.html (7162 words)

	CJR - How to Build Support for War, by Arthur E. Rowse
		Nayirah's testimony came at a time when Americans were wondering how to respond to the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait on August 2.
		Her story was cited frequently in the congressional debate over war authority, which was approved by only five votes in the Senate.
		As many are now aware, the incubator story was the centerpiece of a massive public relations campaign conducted by Hill and Knowlton on behalf of a group called Citizens for a Free Kuwait, for a fee of $ 11.5 million.
	archives.cjr.org /year/92/5/war.asp (762 words)

	Remember Nayira, Witness for Kuwait? JOHN R MACARTHUR / Op-Ed / NY Times 6jan92
		Both Congressman have a close relationship with Hill and Knowlton, the public relations firm hired by Citizens for a Free Kuwait, the Kuwaiti-financed group that lobbied Congress for military intervention.
		Porter, and the chairmen of Citizens for a Free Kuwait, Hassan al-Ebraheem.
		Hill and all funds client, Citizens for a Free Kuwait, donated $50,000 to the foundation, sometime after Iraq's invasion of Kuwait on Aug. 2, 1990.
	www.mindfully.org /Reform/Nayira-Witness-Incubator-Kuwait6jan92.htm (1069 words)

	How PR Sold the War in the Persian Gulf - Center for Media and Democracy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		As late as July 25 - a week before the invasion of Kuwait - US Ambassador April Glaspie commiserated with Hussein over a "cheap and unjust" profile by ABC's Diane Sawyer, and wished for an "appearance in the media, even for five minutes," by Hussein that "would help explain Iraq to the American people."69
		A PR plan was already in place, paid for almost entirely by the "oil-rich sheiks" themselves.
		Lauri J. Fitz-Pegado, account supervisor on the Kuwait account, is a former Foreign Service Officer at the US Information Agency who joined Gray when he set up his firm in 1982."75
	prwatch.org /books/tsigfy10.html (3044 words)

	All-New Terrorist Evil-Doers Trading Card #12 - H&K/ TRG/ OSI/ OSP/ INC/ INA
		Kuwait was then and still remains a dictatorship, under the hereditary Emir, or king, of the al-Sabah royal family.
		In 1990, the general population of the US was barely even aware that Kuwait existed, and was unlikely to be too terribly sympathetic to their oppressive monarchy.
		That was the nature of the PR problem which presented itself to the US and Kuwait governments in their mutual desire to mobilize the US, and other allied Western and Arab nations, for what came to be called the International Coalition for Operation Desert Storm.
	webpages.charter.net /syzygy/tradingpost/12.html (4942 words)

	Selling A War
		While this may be disturbing it is our duty as citizens in a democracy to be open to this reality.
		After the war was over it was disclosed she was the daughter of Kuwait’s ambassador to the United States and hadn’t actually seen the incident she described taking place
		As citizens of the world’s most powerful country we have an obligation to critically examine the position of our government regarding the merits of going to war and each come to our own conclusion.
	www.commondreams.org /views03/0213-04.htm (855 words)

	TV Guide Sidebar
		Following the August 1990 invasion of Kuwait by Iraq, refugees with stories about conditions in their country were selected and the agenda of Hill and Knowlton’s client—were made available to news organizations, thus limiting journalists' ability to independently assess claims of brutality.
		The packaged videotapes were then distributed free of charge to the networks, ostensibly by Citizens for a Free Kuwait.
		None of this is to suggest that the Iraqis did not perpetrate atrocities while occupying Kuwait, nor does it underestimate the difficulties facing the media in obtaining original material under censorship conditions.
	www.rondavid.net /tvguide-sidebar.htm (1111 words)

	John Stauber and Sheldon Rampton: How PR Sold the Gulf War
		In the film, the story is turned upside down, portrayed as a deft public relations move by the Iraqi government, who grant CNN access to Kuwait in a calculated attempt to discredit the rumors that their soldiers were pulling babies from incubators.
		Shales writes that in the HBO film "The horror wreaked on Kuwait is brought back vividly during a sequence in which [CNN producer Robert] Wiener and his team travel to Kuwait to investigate allegations that Iraqi troops had ripped babies out of incubators as part of their plundering -- remember?
		Virtually all of CFK's budget--$10.8 million--went to Hill and Knowlton in the form of fees.
	www.counterpunch.org /stauber1207.html (3083 words)

	Committee for the Free World - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Committee for the Free World (CFW), according to the August 1998 update by Group Watch, was founded in 1981 by Midge Decter who was the organization's executive director.
		"The Adolph Coors Foundation gave CWF a $15,000 grant in 1985 for projects advocating democracy and a free society.
		See Group Watch Article on Committee for the Free World for footnotes and additional material, particularly biographical information on the mentioned "players".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Committee_for_the_Free_World (588 words)

	Kuwaitgate - killing of Kuwaiti babies by Iraqi soldiers exaggerated Washington Monthly - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The meetings led to the formation of a front group, Citizens for a Free Kuwait, which was financed almost entirely by the Kuwaiti government and which paid Hill and Knowlton $11.5 million to get its message to the right people.
		The big bombshell, however, was a story by Harper's magazine publisher John R. MacArthur, which appeared in January 1992 on The New York Times op-ed page, revealing that Nayirah was the daughter of the Kuwaiti ambassador to the United States.
		MacArthur also revealed that Reps. Tom Lantos and John Edward Porter, who sponsored the congressional hearings, had started a group called the Congressional Human Rights Foundation that had received $50,000 from Citizens for a Free Kuwait, as well as free office space in Hill and Knowlton's Washington headquarters.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1316/is_n9_v24/ai_12529902 (912 words)

	SAOIRSE32: December 2004 Archives
		Wearing red overalls and bound with handcuffs and leg irons, the men, who had applied for political asylum in Sweden, were flown to Cairo, according to Swedish officials and documents.
		Citizens for a Free Kuwait (CFK) was a front group established by the Hill & Knowlton PR firm to promote the 1991 U.S. war in the Persian Gulf (Operation Desert Storm).
		Virtually all of CFK's budget - $10.8 million - went to Hill & Knowlton in the form of fees.
	saoirse32.q2u.net /archives/2004/12/index.html (6432 words)

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