INVASION IRAQ: Three Years Later - Where are they now? ["Baghdad Bob," Hans Blix, et al]

MSNBC ^ | 3/20/06

[XR7]

Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf
('Baghdad Bob')

THEN

...Al-Sahaf’s daily press briefings in the lead-up to the war and in its first weeks led to him being nicknamed Baghdad Bob or Comical Ali (an allusion to “Chemical Ali,” the nickname of former Iraqi defense minister Ali Hassan al-Majid.) He gained a considerable cult following, with several Web sites devoted to his outrageous claims...as coalition troops stormed the capital, al-Sahaf declared, "The infidels are committing suicide by the hundreds on the gates of Baghdad."...

NOW

On 25 June 2003, the London newspaper The Daily Mirror reported that al-Sahaf had been captured by coalition troops at a roadblock in Baghdad. The report was not confirmed by military authorities and was denied by al-Sahaf's family through Abu Dhabi TV.

The next day al-Sahaf himself recorded an interview for the Dubai-based al-Arabiya news channel. He said he had surrendered to US forces and had been interrogated by them. He was reportedly paid as much as $200,000 for the interview, in which he was very unlike the bombastic man seen during the war.

There have since been no moves to charge or detain al-Sahaf for his role in the Saddam Hussein government. He is reported to be living in the United Arab Emirates with his family and to be working on a book.

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More HERE: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11843649/

[b4its2late]

Blix?

[NonValueAdded]

"[Baghdad Bob] is reported to be living in the United Arab Emirates ..." Ah ha!

[pointsal]

Everything that I lose ...

seems to be within arm's reach on top of my desk...

[b4its2late]

LOL!

[HEY4QDEMS]

I saw Baghdad Bob doing a commercial for MicroSoft Windows.

"Lies all lies!!! There are absolutely no bugs in XP, NONE!!"

[Semper Paratus]

working on a book

Titled
Roasted Bellies in April -
There are no Americans here

Looking forward to his appearences on Orah, C-Span and Imus.

[SittinYonder]

Wow, reading this has been like watching 30 minutes of VH1. So MSNBC is getting programming ideas from music tv now. I'm not surprised.

Where is Tony Blair, indeed.

[joesnuffy]

Isn't 'Bagdad Bob' a visiting professor of communications at Harvard or Yale.. these days?

Hans Blix is selling his crap on the 'Ge'home Shopping Netwerks'

[CondorFlight]

I thought he was going on the Today show to replace Couric.

(Certainly would raise the ratings. . .)

[Ashamed Canadian]

Blix was fed to sharks by Kim Jong Il wasn't he?

[epluribus_2]

he now works for IBM pushing Linux workstations on the desktop - "It is far easier, my friends, to use a pc with Linux - no, no, by God, you will never have to use the command line shell for anything - I swear this thing to you.

[WatchingInAmazement]

Mohamed Aldouri, Saddam Hussein's representative at the UN is also living in the UAE. The UAE also offered sanctuary to Hussein. (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1512024/posts)

Ex-Iraq ambassador predicts civil war

Thursday 09 March 2006, 15:28 Makka Time, 12:28 GMT

A former Iraqi ambassador to the United Nations has said his country was headed for civil war and blamed the occupation forces for the sectarian violence.

In an interview with CNN, Mohamed Aldouri, Saddam Hussein's representative at the world body, said the occupation forces were acting as a magnet for extremists bent on preventing Iraq from developing into a full democracy.

"I think the occupation plays on the sectarianism problems of Iraq right now," Aldouri said on Wednesday from the United Arab Emirates, where he has been living since the fall of Saddam.

Asked if he thought that civil war could break out in Iraq, he said: "It's very,very likely ... I think that the main problem for Iraq now is the occupation itself.

Opposing occupation

"I am against the occupation. I am against those who are working with the occupation."

He said he thought that Iraq was "very, very capable of governing itself" and that when the occupation forces pulled out, the people who had arrived at the same time would go home too.

"I am against the occupation. I am against those who are working with the occupation"

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/56D6A336-008B-4883-83CD-B3941CC4F50B.htm

[The Great RJ]

Perfect jobs for Baghdad Bob:

• replace Dan Rather or any of the other biased anchors at CBS
• spokesperson for Michael Jackson
• PR spokeman for the Hillary Clinton Presidential campaign
• Curator of the Clinton Presidental Library

[IronJack]

Baghdad Bob is now ethics advisor for the Times Syndicate.