Sara Solovitch,  California-based  journalist who debunked the story of Jumana Hanna.

	Chapter I	Tragedy at Mayerling
	Chapter II	Death of a Princess
	Chapter III	Malediction
	Chapter IV	The First Casualty of War
	Chapter V	Credibility of Foreign Informants
	Chapter VI	Confabulations of Nurse Nayirah
	Chapter VII	Jumana Hanna and Sara Solovitch
	Chapter VIII	Origins of the First World War
	Chapter IX	Ritual Slaughter
	Chapter X	Search for Implausible Narratives

Jumana Hanna and Sara Solovitch
Jumana Hanna (born c. 1962) , a cause célèbre during the President George W. Bush administration, is a member of formerly rich and prominent Iraqi family who, in July 2003, contacted the new provisional government of Iraq to present information about her imprisonment during the President Saddam Hussein's administration.

Jumana Hanna's confabulations
Jumana Hanna claimed that she was
 
"hung from a rod and beaten with a special stick when she called out for Jesus or the Virgin Mary. This is where she and other female prisoners were dragged outside, tied to a dead tree trunk, and raped in the shadow of palm trees. This is the place where electric shock was applied to Hanna's vagina. And this is where in February 2001 someone put a bullet in her husband's head and handed his corpse through the steel gate like a piece of butcher's meat."
 
Hanna claimed that she contacted the new occupation authorities seeking justice and to help the government officials to find the men who tormented her. She claimed that on the first day of her imprisonment,
 
 

"They raped me twice. Two of them. I couldn't see them. They kept raping for four days. On the fifth day, another man applied electric shock to my vagina and I lost consciousness."

Her evidence resulted in the arrest of nine Iraqi officers.

War propaganda of Washington Post and Paul Wolfowitz
She became known to the public when the Washington Post carried a front-page article about her experiences and, in July 2003, Paul Wolfowitz referred to the Washington Post story before the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Hanna's story became famous, capturing hearts and minds of the American public and according to some, it alone was sufficient to justify wars of Bush and his son against Iraq.

True story of Jumana Hanna
The true story of Jumana Hanna was told by Sara Solovitch in her American Dream (Esquire Magazine, January 2005) article. Sara Solovitch had been hired to write Hanna's memoirs. However, when she concluded her research, she instead published her findings, excerpted as follows:
 
Jumana Hanna's testified about the torture and mass murders at Saddam Hussein's prisons where she found herself, as she claimed, for marrying the son of Indian immigrants, as Saddam Hussein made it illegal to marry persons who were not Iraq citizens." Sara Solovitch research revealed that
 
there was no such a law, that her husband was not an Indian, but an Arab, well and alive, and not a piece of butcher's meat, murdered by Saddam's guards, as Jumana Hanna told on many occasions.
 
Furthermore, the pile of bones found in the prison yard where, according to Jumana Hanna were buried bodies of murdered prisoners, turned out upon a forensic analysis to be cow bones. The guards she identified as mass murderers were later released as no evidence, substantiating her accusations, could be found. Also,
 
Jumana Hanna's prison records showed that at the time of her arrest she was not likely a virgin who had been raped by guards and later tortured by electric shocks administered through a rod inserted into her vagina, as prior to her imprisonment she was married and later arrested for prostitution.

References
Solovich, S. (2005) American Dream. Esquire Magazine, January 05.
Wolfowitz, P. (2003) Report to the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
Finn, P. (2003) A lone woman testifies to Iraq's order of terror. Washington Post, July 21, 03.