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Nye Bevan

(25,406 posts)
Fri Jan 3, 2014, 07:39 PM Jan 2014

Four words for those wondering whether the Kim Jong Un "killer dogs" story is real:

Saddam Hussein's alleged shredder.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saddam_Hussein%27s_alleged_shredder


In the runup to the 2003 Invasion of Iraq, press stories appeared in the United Kingdom and United States of a plastic shredder into which Saddam and Qusay Hussein fed opponents of their Baathist rule. These stories attracted worldwide attention and boosted support for military action, in stories with titles such as "See men shredded, then say you don't back war". A year later, it was determined there was no evidence to support the existence of such a machine.



Yeah, Uncle Jang was murdered, but I have serious doubts about the killer dogs.

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Four words for those wondering whether the Kim Jong Un "killer dogs" story is real: (Original Post) Nye Bevan Jan 2014 OP
Four more words: rocktivity Jan 2014 #1
Four more words Pretzel_Warrior Jan 2014 #2
As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly CreekDog Jan 2014 #5
3 more words: Plastic Turkeys Suck Berlum Jan 2014 #8
Had heard it was firing squad... yuiyoshida Jan 2014 #3
I thought I read earlier CFLDem Jan 2014 #4
Four more words: Weapons of Mass Destruction NBachers Jan 2014 #6
3 words ... Hill & Knowlton Mika Jan 2014 #7
Four more words, from 100 years ago. . . Journeyman Jan 2014 #9

yuiyoshida

(41,831 posts)
3. Had heard it was firing squad...
Fri Jan 3, 2014, 07:44 PM
Jan 2014

NOW the story is changed? Whats the Korean word I want? ....hwangso daebyeon! (bull poopie)

 

CFLDem

(2,083 posts)
4. I thought I read earlier
Fri Jan 3, 2014, 07:45 PM
Jan 2014

that he was killed with an anti aircraft gun.

Somehow,I too, think this dog story is sensationalism and or propaganda.

 

Mika

(17,751 posts)
7. 3 words ... Hill & Knowlton
Fri Jan 3, 2014, 08:07 PM
Jan 2014
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nayirah_(testimony)

The Nayirah testimony was the controversial testimony given before the non-governmental Congressional Human Rights Caucus on October 10, 1990 by a female who provided only her first name, Nayirah. In her emotional testimony, Nayirah stated that after the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait she had witnessed Iraqi soldiers take babies out of incubators in a Kuwaiti hospital, take the incubators, and leave the babies to die.
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Furthermore, it was revealed that her testimony was organized as part of the Citizens for a Free Kuwait public relations campaign which was run by Hill & Knowlton for the Kuwaiti government. Following this, al-Sabah's testimony has come to be regarded as a classic example of modern wartime propaganda.[4][5]




Journeyman

(15,031 posts)
9. Four more words, from 100 years ago. . .
Fri Jan 3, 2014, 08:22 PM
Jan 2014
Germans Bayonet Belgian Babies

During the First World War most countries publicized stories of enemy soldiers committing atrocities. It was believed that it would help persuade young men to join the armed forces. As one British general pointed out after the war: "to make armies go on killing one another it is necessary to invent lies about the enemy". These atrocity stories were then fed to newspapers who were quite willing to publish them. British newspapers accused German soldiers of a series of crimes including: gouging out the eyes of civilians, cutting off the hands of teenage boys, raping and sexually mutilating women, giving children hand grenades to play with, bayoneting babies and the crucifixion of captured soldiers. Wythe Williams, who worked for the New York Times, investigated some of these stories and reported "that none of the rumours of wanton killings and torture could be verified."

Atrocities in the First World War (Spartacus Educational) http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/FWWatrocities.htm

And numerous other sources, including Snopes http://www.snopes.com/military/stamp.asp and just about any good book on the general history of the Great War.
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