PR Watch -- New PR Hype To Start Soon

From Cursor.org: PR Watch says to expect lots of media hype soon over a book by the Iraqi who reportedly tipped off U.S. Marines to the location of Pvt. Jessica Lynch. "Because Each Life Is Precious," is being promoted by the same PR person who helped sell the phony 1990 story about Iraqi soldiers murdering Kuwaiti babies.

PRWatch.org: Along with the chance for U.S. citizenship, al-Rehaief received $300,000 from Rupert Murdoch's Harper Collins for his new book about the Lynch rescue. He also was given a job at the Livingston Group, a high-powered D.C. lobby firm. His book "Because Each Life Is Precious: Why an Iraqi Man Came to Risk Everything for Pvt. Jessica Lynch" is being promoted by his Livingston Group colleague Lauri Fitz-Pegado. She is infamous for her work at Hill & Knowlton PR in 1990 coaching the Kuwaiti girl called "Nayirah" in her shocking but phony testimony on Congressional hill that she'd seen Iraqi soldiers murdering Kuwaiti babies. That stunt helped propel the U.S. to war against Iraq in 1991. Fitz-Pegado's client was the ruling family of Kuwait and the baby-killing claims were later shown to be false.

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