Iraqi information minister nabbed in Baghdad: British report

Yahoo! News ^ | June 25, 2003 | AFP

[El Conservador]

LONDON (AFP) - Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf, Iraq (news - web sites)'s information minister at the end of Saddam Hussein (news - web sites)'s regime, has been captured in Baghdad, a British newspaper claimed.

The Daily Mirror said al-Sahaf -- nicknamed "comical Ali" for his robust denials that Baghdad was falling to US troops -- was snared in his car at a US military roadblock on Monday.

In a dispatch from Baghdad, it said al-Sahaf's captors allowed him to go back to a house where he had apparently been holed up with his wife and three children "to collect a toothbrush, razor and book."

"He has some serious talking to do... this time," the tabloid, which had strongly opposed the US-led war to oust Saddam, quoted a "senior coalition source" as saying.

In Baghdad, neither the top civil administrator in the Iraqi capital, Paul Bremer, nor an official US military spokesman was able to confirm al-Sahaf's arrest.

"I have no confirmation on an arrest. Information about that will come in due course from the military," Bremer told reporters.

[El Conservador]

Bring him here, jail him in a Malibu mansion and make him join Fox News as their official buffoon!!!

[RussianConservative]

What Haraldo do then for work?

[Naspino]

He was quoted as saying "I have accepted the surrender of the criminals -- I will take them to prison and remain with them their to guard them..."

[Jeff Head]

I thought the guy was trying to pay someone to take him into custody a few of weeks ago.

Oh well...here's one for old times sake...

[The Great RJ]

He should work for the DNC or maybe as a campaign spokesman for Hillary. He's certainly be more entertaining than Dick Morris or Stephanopolis were.

[Chi-townChief]

So is this for real or not? I heard this on the radio real early this morning and nothing since.

[watchin]

They'll let him go as soon as he whips out his CNN press credentials.