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Translation by me from Hebrew to English: The Iraqi Information Minister, Saeed al-Sahaf, put an end to his life - according to a report yesterday in the Iranian newspaper "Al-Ofak". The newspaper, that comes out in the United States in the Arabic language, based its claim on Iraqi civilians who ran away from Baghdad towards the border with Iran. To their words, Sahaf hung himself last Wed., a few hours before Baghdad was conquered by US marines. This report has no official confirmation. Sahaf, a 63 year old, turned during the war to a media star for his appearances and...

Editor's note: Iraqi information minister Mohammad Saeed Al-Sahhaf gained infamy in recent weeks for defiant proclamations that often ran 180 degrees opposite of reality. What career might await such a man in the post-Saddam world? Page 2 speculates ... "It is high! It is far! It is gone! Another six-run homer for the Yanks!" MICHAEL KAY: Hello, Yankees fans, and welcome to another night of exciting Yankees baseball, with Andy Pettite and the Bronx Bombers taking on Pedro Martinez and the Red Sox in a meeting between the greatest rivals in sports. In addition to the great game, we have...

Editor's note: Iraqi information minister Mohammad Saeed Al-Sahhaf gained infamy in recent weeks for defiant proclamations that often ran 180 degrees opposite of reality. What career might await such a man in the post-Saddam world? Page 2 speculates ... (more)

Rush has announced reports from some Iranian newspapers that "Baghdad Bob", the Iraqi PR flak, hung himself after the invasion of Baghdad by coalition troops.

<p>NEW YORK (AP) -- A Web site that pokes fun at Saddam Hussein's minister of information became such a global hit that its operators had to temporarily pull the plug Friday as they scrambled for more powerful computers.</p> <p>To help pay for the upgrades, the site will sell T-shirts, mugs and barbecue aprons featuring choice quotes from Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf, who maintained with a straight face that Iraqi troops were routing the Americans even as U.S. tanks busted through Baghdad.</p>

<p>WASHINGTON - It could just be more of Iraqi Information Minister Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf's trademark disinformation, but there were reports yesterday that he committed suicide.</p> <p>Two Iranian newspapers reported that Saddam's notorious spinmeister, whose outlandish briefings on the state of the Iraq war earned him the nickname "Comical Ali," hanged himself shortly after the fall of Baghdad last week.</p>

Information chief 'hanged himself' Mohammed Said al-Sahaf, Iraq's former information minister, has committed suicide, said reports yesterday. Two Iranian newspapers said al-Sahaf, famous worldwide for his performances on live television in the last days of Saddam's regime, hanged himself last Wednesday, hours before US forces captured Baghdad. The reports were based on accounts from Iraqi refugees.

Muhammad Said al-Sahhaf, the former Information Minister of Iraq, was named today as the new official corporate spokesman for AOL/Time Warner in New York. Mr. al-Sahhaf, who just days ago had been saying that coalition troops were nowhere near the gates of Baghdad, had generally positive things to say about AOL/Time Warner's prospects in today's competitive media environment. "The merger of AOL and Time Warner was the most successful merger in the history of the media world," said Mr. al-Sahhaf, wearing his trademark beret. "All you have to do is take a look at the value of our executives' stock...

BAGGING BAGHDAD EDITION Bush Like a rock: he told us so—and never wavered. But the looting chaos looks more than "untidy." Saddam Whatever happened to him, he's riding a big fat down arrow straight to his uncle Satan. Hot enuf for ya? Jay Garner Retired general and Kurd-rebuilding wiz will be Iraq's MacArthur. But Israel biz ties not a crowd pleaser. Chalabi Iraqi expat arrives in homeland for first time in 45 years and wants to run the joint. And it could just happen. Al-Sahaf(Baghdad Bob) Iraqi info chief kept straight face while claiming victory even as our troups rolled...

Iraqi refugees: Al-Sahaf committed suicide 15-04-2003, 11:46 Iraqi refugees who have taken shelter at Iraq's borders near the Iranian town of Dehloran over the week have claimed that Information Minister Saeed al-Sahaf had committed suicide, the Iranian newspaper, Mardomsalari reported Tuesday. A similar report was published in Iran's Arabic newspaper, Al Wifaq. According to these reports, al-Sahaf hanged himself a few hours before Baghdad fell to US forces on April 9th. The refugees gave no source to confirm their claim. In his press briefing on Monday, White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer, said the US government believed former Iraqi leaders,...

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Sample: Go to web site for others. At Little Big Horn with General Custer: The Heathen Pagan Infidel louts have been routed; God willing, they will scalp themselves before we do it for them. They might have a chance, if they could ride horses. But they fall off. We have been surprised by this. They think by surrounding us they will gain the advantage, but the lying cowards will see who is surrounded. I am just reporting what anyone will tell you is obvious just from looking around. Indeed I doubt we will need to meet tomorrow, since they will...

The Best of Baghdad Bob By John W. Albanese BSNN.net One of the great tragedies of this war is the disappearance of Iraqi Information Minister Mohammad Said al-Sahhaf. So I, like many others, have compiled of a list of my favorite statements from the man who cannot tell a lie. "The invasion is a lie." "As our leader Saddam Hussein said, God is grilling their stomachs in hell. I think we will finish them soon." "The infidels are committing suicide by the hundreds on the gates of Baghdad." "It is difficult for the US forces that are surrounded in Saddam...

<p>DOHA, Qatar — He bemused the West with his litany of claimed victories over coalition troops, and amused Arabs with his bottomless dictionary of insults. Iraq's information minister hasn't been seen for days, but he's hardly disappeared.</p> <p>Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf is the star of a Web site whose creators poke admiring fun at his dogged defense of Saddam Hussin's regime and his skewerings of opponents from the standard "infidels" to the pop-culture-savvy "superpower of Al Capone."</p>

The Information Minister and Greenpeace share the same mask of deceit, writes Paul Sheehan. It's time somebody came to the defence of Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf, the Minister for Information for Saddamistan. Despite his new ironic cult-hero status as the world's most deluded clown, he was one of the shrewdest and most successful operators of the Iraq war. Seriously. Yes, by our standards his daily media briefings were absurd: "Our initial assessment is that they will all die ..."; "We're giving them a real lesson today. Heavy casualties doesn't accurately describe the level of casualties we have inflicted ..."; "We have...

AMMAN, Jordan, April 14 (UPI) -- A Jordanian journalist said Monday that Iraqi Information Minister Mohammed Said al-Sahhaf threatened to cut off his hands over a report on the advance of U.S. forces on Baghdad.Majed Abdel Hadi, a correspondent for the Qatari al-Jazeera television, told United Press International that al-Sahhaf, who has vanished since American troops entered Baghdad last week, stormed the channel's offices in Baghdad and threatened to cut off his hands and dump him in the desert if he kept on reporting that the U.S. forces were approaching the Iraqi capital.Abdel Hadi said al-Sahhaf "accused me of being...

MORE INFORMATION ON U.K. CITIZEN AND FORMER HUMAN SHIELD / SADDAM SYMPATHIZER / SOCIALIST WORKER 'REPORTER' MS. UZMA BASHIR (aka "BAGHDAD BASHIR") (Scroll down for reference) TEXT OF ARTICLE: It was, by any measure, an astonishing coincidence. As the biggest statue of Saddam Hussein in Baghdad was pulled down "spontaneously" in front of the world's media, the Stars and Stripes which flew on the Pentagon on 11 September was at hand to be draped over its face. The US army denied that the toppling of the 20ft edifice by a tank tower was stage-managed. It was a coincidence, they...

Well informed sources told the Jordanian Daily Al Dotsour yesterday that an operation of collective assassination was made by American-British forces on the Iraqi leadership and was carried out, according to an intelligence plan in the Al Mansour suburb of Baghdad. The sources said that two of the dissident Senior Iraqi Military Leaders coordinated with one of the Leaders of the Republican Guard in an operation to monitor the date and place of a meeting for the Iraqi leadership, noting that the Senior Member of the Republican Guard carried out this mission completely.The paper explained that he was informed by...

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In the 1980s, one of my favorite characters on "Saturday Night Live" was the hilarious pathological liar Tommy Flanagan, portrayed by comedian Jon Lovitz. He was the guy who claimed to be simultaneously married to Morgan Fairchild and a "young Elizabeth Taylor," and made "Yeah, that's the ticket!" a national catchphrase. Now, many years later, the Flanagan legacy lives on – this time in reality TV in coverage of the war with Iraq. Muhammed Saeed al-Sahhaf, a.k.a "Baghdad Bob" The part of the lovable liar who seems to go out of his way to flay the truth is Iraqi information...