Jumana Michael/Mikhail Hanna (Arabic: جُمانة ميخائيل حنّا; born c. 1962) is an Iraqi woman of Assyrian background who was imprisoned at the facility known as Al Kelab Al Sayba, or Loose Dogs, during the rule of Saddam Hussein.
After the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime, Hanna visited the Al Kelab Al Sayba prison in Iraq with a western reporter, resulting in a Washington Post front page story in which she related stories of the atrocities that she had allegedly suffered.[1]
During the visit, she told the reporters that she had been jailed and tortured in the facility, and that her husband had been killed in a nearby prison.[2]The Washington Post story was later mentioned by Paul Wolfowitz while testifying before the United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations.[3] Hanna was resettled to northern California by US authorities to protect her from possible reprisals.[2]
Sara Solovitch, a journalist based in California, became interested in the story and met with Hanna for a series of interviews, as she intended to write a book about her life. After their first meeting, however, Solovitch began to feel that many of Hanna's stories were "ludicrous" and that hardly any details of her account were true.[2] Her husband, who allegedly had been executed in an Iraqi prison, was in fact still alive.[2] Solovitch's research ultimately revealed that almost every detail of the story was fabricated.[4]
In July 2003, she attested to the Coalition Provisional Authority that she had been tortured during her time in the prison, due to her religious beliefs. The evidence she provided eventually led to nine Iraqi officers being arrested. The nine Iraqi officers arrested on her testimony were released later when it became apparent that little of Ms. Hanna's tale could be verified.[5]
^Ibrahim, Youssef M. (January 12, 2005). "Outside View: Fiction destroys U.S. credibility". United Press International. Retrieved July 15, 2018.
^ abcd"Iraqi Woman Profits From False Testimony". Voice of America. October 28, 2009. Retrieved July 15, 2018.
^Wolfowitz, Paul (2004). "Statement of Hon. Paul D. Wolfowitz, Deputy Secretary of Defense; Accompanied by: General John M. Keane, Acting Chief of Staff, U.S. Army, Department of Defense, Washington, DC" (PDF). Iraq: Status and Prospects for Reconstruction—Resources: Hearing Before the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate, One Hundred Eighth Congress, First Session, July 29, 2003. S. Hrg. 108–255. Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office. LCCN 2004356985. Retrieved May 9, 2022.
^Sara, Solovitch (January 2005). "The American Dream". Esquire. Vol. 143, no. 1. pp. 88–93, 114–118. Archived from the original on October 27, 2020.
^Wyatt, Edward (January 21, 2005). "Iraqi Refugee's Tale of Abuse Dissolves Upon Later Scrutiny". The New York Times. Retrieved July 15, 2018.
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