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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - The former Iraqi information minister, 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 regime. Al-Arabiya satellite network 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...

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.

<p>WASHINGTON (CNN) --The CIA has in its hands the critical parts of a key piece of Iraqi nuclear technology -- parts needed to develop a bomb program -- that were dug up in a back yard in Baghdad, CNN has learned.</p>

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,...

.details{font-family : arial;font-size: 10px; color: ffffff;background-color : CE0000;} Wednesday 25 June 2003 06:46am COMICAL ALI 'HELD' (NO JOKE) Jun 25 2003 WORLD EXCLUSIVE From Paul Martin In Baghdad   COMICAL Ali, Saddam Hussein's ludicrous spin doctor, has been arrested in Baghdad, it was claimed last night.Information minister Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf had been hiding out at a relative's house since April watching satellite TV - banned under Saddam.US troops set up a road block in the Baghdad suburb and caught him in his car on Monday night. WINNING: Al-Sahaf Al-Sahaf - who became a comic hero for his ridiculous denials...

<p>BAGHDAD &#8212; Mohamed Sayeed al-Sahaf, who as Saddam Hussein's loyal information minister achieved worldwide fame for his fierce though wildly inaccurate claims of victories against U.S. forces, has been arrested for at least the second time by coalition troops.</p> <p>A coalition source who declined to be identified confirmed the arrest, saying Mr. Sahaf "has some serious talking to do this time."</p>

<p>June 25, 2003 -- WASHINGTON - Saddam Hussein's top wartime propagandist - dubbed "Baghdad Bob" for his outlandish, lie-filled news briefings - was captured at a Baghdad roadblock, a London newspaper reported today.</p> <p>Word of the capture came as six British troops were killed yesterday, in southern Iraq, the deadliest day for coalition forces since Saddam's fall.</p>

ONDON (Reuters) - The Daily Mirror says U.S. troops have arrested Iraq's information minister under Saddam Hussein, Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf, at a roadblocks in a Baghdad suburb. There was no immediate reaction from Washington on Wednesday. The ex-minister, dubbed "Comical Ali" for proclaiming the defeat of U.S. forces even as they moved into Baghdad, had been hiding out at a relative's house watching satellite TV, but was caught on Monday night, the paper said in a report from Baghdad. "He has some serious talking to do...this time," a "senior coalition source" was quoted as saying. There was no independent confirmation...

According to an unconfirmed report, US forces have arrested Muhammad Said al-Sahaf, the former Iraqi information minister. Nicknamed “Comical Ali” because of his increasingly surreal briefings towards the end of the war, Mr al-Sahaf was reported to have been detained in a Baghdad suburb on Monday. The Pentagon said it had no knowledge of the arrest.

SportsIraqi Information Minister Channels Through Lennox Lewis after Fight Posted by Big Brother on 2003/6/21 23:27:49 (73 reads) Los Angeles (Newshax wire) -- Following a solid beating at the hands of Vitaly Klitschko, Lennox Lewis apparantly was inhabited by the soul of the former Iraqi Information Minister Saeed Abdul Raeef, saying in a post fight interview that "He's lucky the fight was stopped." When reminded that he was behind on all judges scorecards, Lewis said it was "just a matter of time before he crumbled under my mighty feet," and reiterated just how lucky Klitschko was that the referees stopped...

A quagmire is defined as marshy or boggy land where the footing is insecure. Or, as the dictionary says, "a situation from which extrication is very difficult." In any case, it is the word that no one wants to think about when it comes to the war in Iraq. It is seven weeks since President Bush declared that major hostilities in Iraq were over. Since then, however, more than 40 American troops have been killed in accidents or after being attacked by unfriendly forces, many of whom are believed to be loyal to Saddam Hussein. For the past couple of...

A family maid tells her storyTwo weeks into the war in Iraq, the maid realized something was up when her boss, Saddam Hussein's nephew, told her to bone up on a Tikriti accent so that she wouldn't attract attention as a Baghdadi when the family moved north. Two days later, she says, she found herself in a convoy of cars with Saddam's sons Uday and Qusay, headed for a rendezvous in Tikrit, Saddam's hometown, with the Iraqi dictator. The 18-year-old woman, who spoke to TIME on condition of anonymity, was a live-in employee of Farhan Ibrahim Migdal al-Dolaymi, who resided...

Paper to Switch to All-Whopper Format In a move seemingly designed to rock the journalism world, former Iraqi Information Minister Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf was named executive editor of The New York Times today after the surprisingly brief seven-hour tenure of interim editor Joseph Lelyveld. Mr. al-Sahaf, who had been serving as the spokesman for media giant AOL-Time Warner, said he welcomed the challenges ahead in his new post at the Times. “Much as I loved working at AOL-Time Warner, I was bored,” Mr. al-Sahaf said. “That company is such a well-oiled machine, there just wasn’t much for me to do.”...

<p>1) President George W. Bush is a liar.</p> <p>2) Secretary of State Colin Powell is a liar.</p> <p>3) Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld is a liar.</p> <p>4) National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice is a liar.</p> <p>To the above facts we might add these: There are no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, none were there when our war against Iraq began, and none will be found unless we plant them there.</p>

The BBC documentary asserted that the dramatic raid was actually unnecessary. It said Iraqi doctors tried to turn Lynch over to the Americans two days earlier, but were turned away by gunfire at a checkpoint. It claimed the Americans knew that Iraqi forces had already left the hospital. In this account, U.S. forces came in firing blanks and setting off explosions, just like in an American action movie. The Toronto Star and BBC accounts have some credibility problems.

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Operation Infinite Freedom Link to the previous thread Good Morning. Welcome to the daily thread of Operation Infinite Freedom - Situation Room. It is designed for general conversation about the ongoing war on terror, and the related events of the day. Im addition to the ongoing conversations related to terrorism and our place in it's ultimate defete, this thread is a clearinghouse of links to War On Terrorism threads. This allows us to stay abreast of the situation in general, while also providing a means of obtaining specific information and mutual support.

Operation Infinite Freedom Link to the previous thread Good Morning. Welcome to the daily thread of Operation Infinite Freedom - Situation Room. It is designed for general conversation about the ongoing war on terror, and the related events of the day. Im addition to the ongoing conversations related to terrorism and our place in it's ultimate defete, this thread is a clearinghouse of links to War On Terrorism threads. This allows us to stay abreast of the situation in general, while also providing a means of obtaining specific information and mutual support.

Operation Infinite Freedom Link to the previous thread Good Morning. Welcome to the daily thread of Operation Infinite Freedom - Situation Room. It is designed for general conversation about the ongoing war on terror, and the related events of the day. Im addition to the ongoing conversations related to terrorism and our place in it's ultimate defete, this thread is a clearinghouse of links to War On Terrorism threads. This allows us to stay abreast of the situation in general, while also providing a means of obtaining specific information and mutual support.

Operation Infinite Freedom Link to the previous thread Good Morning. Welcome to the daily thread of Operation Infinite Freedom - Situation Room. It is designed for general conversation about the ongoing war on terror, and the related events of the day. Im addition to the ongoing conversations related to terrorism and our place in it's ultimate defete, this thread is a clearinghouse of links to War On Terrorism threads. This allows us to stay abreast of the situation in general, while also providing a means of obtaining specific information and mutual support.