Incident occurred in August of 1990. Saddam took over a thousand foreign nationals who worked in Kuwait and Iraq and put them under captivity. In a propaganda ploy to show that he was not the thug he was he brought in a British family and tried to be Mr. Niceguy to the little boy. The little boy acted how some of those Royal Marines and Sailor should of acted. He answered the questions by Saddam but it was obvious the boy was upset and did not think much of Saddam. I think my issue is not what the 15 Brits said but how some of them appeared. Physical body gestures and body movements can tell the whole story. The way some of the Brits acted with the Iranians it reinforces what they were saying.
Also Mike Durrante who was held captive in Somalia after his Blackhawk was shot down appeared better than these Brits and his back was broken, his crew killed and he was shot! I think he was asked why the Americans were killing children and his reply was "Killing is bad". Obviously he had no control on being taped but he answered his questions tactfully enough to show that he was not fully cooperative. Here's the links about the little boy. http://www.answers.com/topic/stuart-lockwood
Another hero!
On June 15, 1985 Hezballah (sponsored by Iran) brutally beat, tortured and then killed 23 year old Robert Dean Stethem as he was being held hostage aboard TWA 847 commercial airliner. Robert was on his way home after a tour of duty with the US Navy in the Middle East. The terrorists had hijacked the plane with 153 passengers in Athens Greece forcing the pilot to fly twice to Algiers and twice to Beirut during the 17 day siege. The hostages were released after Israel released 435 Lebanese and Palestinian prisoners.
“When the plane was at the Beirut airport in Lebanon, Petty Officer Stethem was singled out because he was in the US military. After many hours of being cruelly beaten, tortured, and finally killed by the terrorists, they threw his body from the plane in a final disgraceful, cowardly act. The wounds were so terrible that his body had to be identified by its fingerprints.
Throughout the ordeal, Robert Stethem did not yield, and instead encouraged his fellow passengers to endure by his example. He was posthumously awarded the Purple Heart and Bronze Star for heroism and bravery. He is buried at Arlington Cemetery.”
–Mark Crawford, Bryantown from “Who Was Robert Stethem