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BY JAMES TARANTO Friday, April 30, 2004 4:11 p.m. EDT Joe Says It Was So Remember Joe Wilson, the loudmouthed former ambassador who stirred up a kerfuffle last year by claiming that BUSH LIED!!!! when he purportedly said Saddam Hussein's Iraq had sought to buy uranium in Niger? Now Wilson has a book out, and it seems he's changing his story. The Washington Post reports: It was Saddam Hussein's information minister, Mohammed Saeed Sahhaf, often referred to in the Western press as "Baghdad Bob," who approached an official of the African nation of Niger in 1999 to discuss trade--an overture...

Book Names Iraqi in Alleged '99 Bid to Buy Uranium By Susan Schmidt Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, April 30, 2004; Page A16 It was Saddam Hussein's information minister, Mohammed Saeed Sahhaf, often referred to in the Western press as "Baghdad Bob," who approached an official of the African nation of Niger in 1999 to discuss trade -- an overture the official saw as a possible effort to buy uranium. That's according to a new book Joseph C. Wilson IV, a former ambassador who was sent to Niger by the CIA in 2002 to investigate reports that Iraq had been...

Iraq's former information minister who became a superstar with his controversial rhetoric and statements during the US-led invasion will go on television next week to reveal part of the war secrets and how ousted president Saddam Hussain felt he would lose the war. Mohammed Saeed Al Sahhaf has been booked by Abu Dhabi television for an extensive interview stretching more than five hours and which will be broadcast in five parts. Al Sahhaf, who kept assuring an army of journalists that Iraq remained under control despite the advance of US forces into Baghdad, will also disclose secret meetings had taken...

Iraq-US-Sahhaf-wanted 04-29 0373 US forces turn down Sahhaf's surrender overtures: Arabic daily CAIRO, April 29 (AFP) - Iraq's former information minister Mohammad Said al-Sahhaf, who denied to the end the presence of US forces in Baghdad, was turned down by US troops after trying to turn himself in, said the London-based Arab newspaper Asharq Al-Awsat on Tuesday, citing a Kurdish official. Sahhaf has been at his aunt's house in Baghdad for the past four days and had wanted US troops to arrest him so that "they can protect him" but they refused since he was not on their "most wanted"...

Baghdad looting just a shopping festival, survivor Sahhaf says 25 minutes ago Add Top Stories - AFP to My Yahoo! DUBAI (AFP) - "There's no looting, it's a shopping festival," says Iraqi information minister Mohammed Said al-Sahhaf whose spirit has survived the demise of his regime to put some spin on the orgy of plundering in Baghdad. AFP Photo Latest news: · Saddam's Half-Brother Caught in Baghdad AP - 8 minutes ago · U.S. Forces Nab Saddam's Half-Brother AP - 8 minutes ago · Iraqi opposition leader sets up shop in BaghdadAFP - 20 minutes ago Special Coverage   Sahhaf...