Saddam's information minister to reappear on Al-Arabiya TV

Yahoo, AFP ^ | 6/26/03 | AFP

[Nexus]

Ex-Iraqi information minister Mohammed Said al-Sahaf will reappear for the first time since the fall of Baghdad in an interview conducted there by Al-Arabiya television, the news channel said.

[Nexus]

The countdown begins!

[Lijahsbubbe]

Must be sweeps week.

[bedolido]

maybe he could be Jay Leno's side-kick. I like this guy...

[ewing]

After succesfully taking the infidels hostage at a US military checkpoint, they surrendered to Allah and retreated to Kuwait!!..God Willing

[Nexus]

Look at the morphed USA/Iraqi flag in the lower left of the photo. I didn't notice that at first.

[Angelus Errare]

Comical Ali ping

[Dog]

I just pinged you to something..

[Dog Gone]

It's bound to be interesting, if nothing else.

[Cate]

Now he won't be wearing the beret and uniform will he? As that military group is now defunct.

[Diddle E. Squat]

Nope, no uniform, but still looks like Dustin Hoffman.

[Dirk McQuickly]

Forget Leno -- we just found a replacement for Ari Fleischer!

[bedolido]

Forget Leno -- we just found a replacement for Ari Fleischer!

He is leaving isn't he...hmmmmmmm

[showme_the_Glory]

LIVE from Bagdad, It's Saturday Night......

[presidio9]

You are mistaken. The Information Minister did NOT appear on television. He is busy planning an attack strategy against the infidel Western Crusaders, should they ever appear in Iraq. They have not thus far.

[rs79bm]

See! I told you we would be victorious! See! See! See!

[Nexus]

To clarify, the above graphic is NOT from this new interview.

Foxnews.com now on it:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,90502,00.html

Thursday, June 26, 2003

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates  — The former Iraqi information minister (search), who gained notoriety during the war for wildly implausible claims of victory, showed up on Arab television Thursday -- his first appearance since the collapse of Saddam Hussein's (search) regime.

Al-Arabiya satellite network (search) broadcast a few seconds of footage of Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf, part of a 30-minute interview it said it conducted with him in Baghdad on Thursday. The TV network said it would air the full interview Friday.

The network said al-Sahhaf claimed he had surrendered to American forces, was interrogated and released.

He "was exclusively interviewed in his hide-out in Baghdad," al-Arabiya said in a statement sent to The Associated Press. The network did not say where the hide-out is.

The interview will include "important information about the last war and the fall of the Iraqi regime," al-Arabiya said.

In Thursday's clip, al-Sahhaf appeared fit, but with graying hair -- a departure from his previous look of black hair and military uniform.

Al-Sahhaf appeared on television worldwide in daily briefing for the international press in Baghdad before and during the U.S.-led war, speaking about Iraqi military successes and insulting coalition forces, President Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair.

Al-Sahhaf disappeared April 9, the day Baghdad fell to coalition forces. He is not on the list of the 55 most wanted Iraqi officials.

[ProtectCLB]

If he says it, I beleive it, that's it!

[ProtectCLB]

For those of you who need to get caught up......

http://www.welovetheiraqiinformationminister.com/

[PoisedWoman]

. The network did not say where the hide-out is.

Hide-out,huh? They've all been watching too many old cowboy flicks. Bad guys always have hide-outs. Apparently mad guys and sociopathic liars too. "Comical" must have a cot down in some tunnel, or perhaps he's pitched a tent outside a US installation, doing stand-up comedy for food.

Does he know we call him Comical Ali?

[Dr. Eckleburg]

His oil's been changed.