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'Comical Ali' wanted to surrender (the saga continues)
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| April 24 2003
Posted on 04/24/2003 3:28:07 PM PDT by knighthawk
Lisbon - Mohammad Said al-Sahhaf, the Iraqi information minister whose briefings made him a worldwide celebrity during the recent war and who is now high on a list of people wanted by the United States, tried to hand himself in via a contact with Portuguese journalists, a newspaper said on Thursday.
The Portuguese daily Diario de Noticias said a family claiming to be sheltering Sahhaf, reportedly in the women's section of a home in a poor neighbourhood of Baghdad, had been in contact with two journalists, but they had failed to come up with the former information chief.
The reporters, one from Diario and the other from the weekly magazine Visao, had acted on a rumour that Sahhaf was hiding out in the home of a former civil servant, the paper said.
A member of the family in question had negotiated with the reporters for five days, saying that the former aide's presence in their home was unwanted.
The family member told the reporters that Sahhaf "wants to hand himself over to the Americans, but doesn't know how to do it," Diario said.
The reporters said they had received the promise of an interview with Sahhaf via the reported host, and said that in exchange they would help him to hand himself over safely to US forces.
However, at the time and place agreed for the interview, only the person they had spoken to turned up, and he told the reporters to simply forget about the whole affair and not to mention it to anyone, the paper said.
The reported host had said the former minister was being sheltered "in the women's room, a completely protected part of the house, where no-one enters."
He added that Sahhaf had been practically cut off from the outside world since US forces entered Baghdad on April 7, save for news received via the BBC on a short-wave radio.
TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: alsahhaf; baghdadbob; comicalali; diariodenoticias; iraq; iraqifreedom; surrender; turass
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To: knighthawk
"But we cannot hold him for lying to us." Obviously. Look at Bill Clinton.
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posted on
04/24/2003 5:37:03 PM PDT
by
sweetliberty
("Better to keep silent and be thought a fool than to open your your mouth and remove all doubt.")
To: FourPeas; Paul Atreides; lowbridge
We need to immortalize Baghdad Bob in much the same way as Tourist Guy.
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posted on
04/24/2003 5:39:40 PM PDT
by
sweetliberty
("Better to keep silent and be thought a fool than to open your your mouth and remove all doubt.")
To: knighthawk
There is lots of money waiting for his appearance here in the U.S. Hey, he could even become the new Dell dude.
To: knighthawk
Bob Bump
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posted on
04/24/2003 6:10:38 PM PDT
by
Brad’s Gramma
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To: nicmarlo
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
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posted on
04/24/2003 6:12:38 PM PDT
by
Brad’s Gramma
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To: nicmarlo
Maybe Baghdad Bob has a new gig.
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posted on
04/24/2003 6:26:41 PM PDT
by
sweetliberty
("Better to keep silent and be thought a fool than to open your your mouth and remove all doubt.")
To: knighthawk
It was probably after negotiations like these that Tariq Aziz gave himself up.
To: johnb838
I agree,,,his extreme ludicrous exaggeration was a signal that he was under duress,,he told the truth with his fantastic lies.
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posted on
04/24/2003 6:58:06 PM PDT
by
cajungirl
(no)
To: sweetliberty
LOL! That's a good one you found.
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posted on
04/24/2003 7:14:23 PM PDT
by
nicmarlo
To: presidio9
"Baghdad Bob Bump."
Can we trade him for Dashle?
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posted on
04/24/2003 7:20:04 PM PDT
by
lawdude
To: farmfriend
George Bush: "They said you was hung!"
Baghdad Bob: "And they was right!"
To: Willie Green
"That's odd. I pictured him trying to disquise himself as a woman wearing a burqua. I guess thinking about Baghdad Bob in boxers just ain't on my radar screen."Hmmm -- Baghdad Bob as a woman wearing a burka from the neck up...And completing the ensemble with the polka-dot boxers, black socks, and backless slippers....
The radar screen just got stranger.
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posted on
04/24/2003 9:54:14 PM PDT
by
F16Fighter
(Democrats -- The Party of Stalin and Chiraq)
To: nicmarlo
bttt
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posted on
04/26/2003 9:52:39 AM PDT
by
MeekOneGOP
(Bu-bye Saddam! / Check out my Freeper site !: http://home.attbi.com/~freeper/wsb/index.html)
To: knighthawk
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posted on
04/26/2003 9:53:22 AM PDT
by
MeekOneGOP
(Bu-bye Saddam! / Check out my Freeper site !: http://home.attbi.com/~freeper/wsb/index.html)
To: knighthawk
If true, leave it to Bagdad Bob to hide behind women. It only serves to make him more of a world laughing stock.
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posted on
04/26/2003 9:56:39 AM PDT
by
nmh
To: knighthawk
If true, leave it to Bagdad Bob to hide behind women. It only serves to make him more of a world laughing stock.
" The reported host had said the former minister was being sheltered "in the women's room, a completely protected part of the house, where no-one enters." "
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posted on
04/26/2003 9:57:24 AM PDT
by
nmh
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