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MOHAMMED Saeed al-Sahhaf’s defiant words were drowned out by rattling small arms fire and tanks rumbling into Baghdad. "No!" the Iraqi information minister shouted to the press conference on the roof of the Palestine Hotel. "There are no tanks ... this is their sick propaganda." At the time, Fox News was showing live footage of United States marines in Saddam Hussein’s bathrooms, but Mr Sahhaf was in denial; the master of smoke and mirrors proved once more that, no matter the evidence, there is always an alternative to reality. Wreathed in smoke yesterday and standing a few hundred yards from...

Even as the fighting raged on the right bank of the Tigris yesterday, a strange gathering formed on the balcony of the Hotel Palestine, home to foreign journalists and their moustachioed monitors from the ministry of information. Wearing his black Ba'ath Party beret pulled down tight over his skull and even more agitated than usual, Mohammed Said al-Sahaf, the thin-lipped information minister, held an impromptu press conference. "The Americans claim their tanks are in the middle of the city. This is a lie," he huffed. "No American tank is in Baghdad. Never. They tried to get back into the city...

Rarely can an enemy regime have supplied us with so hilarious a figure as Saeed al-Sahaf, Iraq's information minister. Yesterday, as American forces advanced through the capital, Mr al-Sahaf told journalists: "There are no American troops in Baghdad. We surrounded them, we killed them, we made them drink poison and taught them a lesson that history will never forget." Mr al-Sahaf's dedication to burying bad news has, over the course of the war, changed him from a suave, John Le Mesurier-like figure into a babbling loon. When coalition troops took Najaf, he insisted that they had been routed. When they...

(2003-04-07) -- Coalition troops now in the heart of Baghdad have discovered a massive cache of the chemical agent lysergic acid diethylamide. The Iraqi Information Ministry has been identified as the site of a huge repository of the substance, commonly called LSD. "After listening to recent statements from the Iraqi Information Minister, we had suspected there were large quantities of LSD in the building," said an unnamed Pentagon spokesman. Information Minister Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf called on the United Nations to address the "immanent humanitarian medical crisis." "There is no way I can do my job effectively without this essential medication,"...

I think it would be a shame to kill or even jail Baghdad Bob, There are people who would pay good money to have him in the US. Let freepers rise to the occasion. What is the perfect second career for Baghdad Bob? 1)Replace any anchor at either NPR or PBS. Bill Moyers with a beret? They'd never know the difference. 2)DNC Chairman. Replacing the ranting and raving Terry McAuliffe would be perfect. They are both pathological liars. Perfect. 3)Hollywood would welcome Baghdad Bob with open arms. Replace Jack Valenti as Hollywood lobbyist? Maybe do William Holden's role in a...

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Iraq's information minister Monday denied U.S. troops had stormed Baghdad, declaring: "Be assured Baghdad is safe, secure and great." "They are sick in their minds. They say they brought 65 tanks into center of city. I say to you this talk is not true. This is part of their sick mind," Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf said. "There is no presence of American infidels in the city of Baghdad at all." Sahhaf, at a rooftop news conference amid a crowd of foreign reporters, said amid sirens and clouds of dusts that Saddam Hussein's forces had given invading...

Baghdad Bob says "U.S. Forces are not in Baghdad...er...wait a minute."

In honor of our Freed and the men and women who risked their lives to rescue her! Freed POW PFC Jessica Lynch - Army Photo Freed POW PFC Jessica Lynch - Private Photo Good Morning. This is the Daily Thread of Operation Iraqi Freedom - LIVE THREAD. It is designed for general conversation about the events of the day. In depth discussion of events should be left to individual threads - but links to the threads or other articles is highly encouraged. This allows us to stay abreast of the situation in general, while also providing a means of...

<p>March 29, 2003 -- U.S. warplanes continued their assault on the Iraqi leadership yesterday, blowing away the Baghdad headquarters of Saddam Hussein's Ba'ath Party with Tomahawk missiles.</p> <p>The precision strike took place shortly after the United States unleashed two monster 4,700-pound bunker-buster bombs on a communications site inside the Iraqi capital.</p>

The Central Intelligence Agency's ability to gather intelligence in the Middle East has been injured by reforms triggered in 1995 by then-Rep. Robert Torricelli (D-N.J.), members of the House Intelligence Committee said last week. In the wake of disclosures by Torricelli that a Guatemalan colonel linked to the murder of an American was on the CIA payroll, the agency fired one-third of its informants - roughly 1,000 "assets" - and instituted new rules on the recruitment of sources. Some of the assets were fired because of poor production, but others were fired for criminal activity that could have proved ...

<p>September 17, 2002 -- NEW Jersey voters already concerned about Sen. Robert Torricelli's low ethical threshold now learn that he's been a paid shill for a group the government identifies as a terrorist organization. Called on this by his Republican opponent, Douglas Forrester, in a debate Thursday, Torricelli said the group had been pulled from the State Department's global terror list and given a clean bill of health. Not true.</p>