Reposrts suggest Ex-Iraqi information minister commits suicide

Thursday April 17, 2003 15:18

by Comical Ali - Iraqi Information Ministry

Reports suggest the Iraqi information minister knicknamed 'comical Ali' has killed himself.

Allied military chiefs were today looking at reports that the Iraqi information minister dubbed "Comical Ali" had committed suicide.

Newspaper reports in Iran said Mr Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf, who repeatedly claimed that Iraq was winning the war, had hanged himself.

Military sources treated the reports with caution, suggesting they could have been spread by the fleeing Iraqi propagandist to throw special forces off his trail.

Mr al-Sahhaf is not on the US list of Saddam Hussein's 55 most-wanted henchmen, but he is still being sought, after becoming the mouthpiece for the Iraqi regime during the war.

Despite having one of the most recognised faces in the Middle East he has not been seen since he vanished just before the fall of Baghdad.

Two Iranian newspapers said he killed himself in the hours before the capital was taken by US forces, and refugees coming across the Iranian border said he had committed suicide.

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Mr Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf repies........

by Mr Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf

Thu Apr 17, 2003 15:30

Saeed at beaumonthospital dot com

"You are now too far from the truth. I did not commit suicide. It is the Yankee and Brit infidels who are slitting their own throats, not me. Iraq is still in the hands of our mighty leader Saddam and the news reports you are seeing of troops in Baghdad were really filmed by the CIA in the Nevada desert," said Mr Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf.

PS he added: "WBA will not be relegated from the Premiership this season. It is the dogs of Man. UTD. who will be plunged into the dark waters of the Nationwide."

Disgraceful

by kokomero

Thu Apr 17, 2003 16:32

Whatever about "comical Ali" his family can hardly be held responsible for his actions. What's more his son is performing a very useful function as a hospital doctor. I think your post is is extremely bad taste and you should apologise.

Sinister Ali

by damnbutter

Thu Apr 17, 2003 16:40

I don't think the poor bastards who were purged after Saddams coming to power found al-Sahaf too comical, he was the official who read out the lists of those to be purged. See R. Fisk's article in todays Independent

Fisk reports that the US/K are busy ignoring human rights evidence

by Phuq Hedd

Thu Apr 17, 2003 16:57

And avoiding stopping the arsonists, who appear to be very organised and separate from the looters.

So, what's the game? The US is hoping that they'll not have to prosecute the State apparatus and can use the same people that carried out Hussein's will for their own ends?

Or the arsonists are organised by Chalabi and the "democratic opposition"?

Or the arson is being encouraged because it shows the need for a patriarchal outside hand to rule over the Iraqi people who are "not ready for democracy yet?".

The pillage of information i.e. burning of libraries is an ancient war tool.

by iosaf ipsiphi

Thu Apr 17, 2003 17:03

it also means destroying the evidence of a tyrannical regime.

THINK!

so many people are missing the point of what would naturally come after Saddam.
don't lose the thread now.

The new commander of Mosul

Thu Apr 17, 2003 17:05

where the 12 civilians were shot by the US troops, was a functionary of Hussein's involved in the suppression of the 1991 Shi'ite uprising. He's also a member of the "Democratic National Congress".

Oooh! I know which hypothesis I'm going for. What about you?

KLAATU BARADA NIKTO

by Perry Rhodan

Thu Apr 17, 2003 18:38

Yes, I am sure the Pentagon has contingency plans for the auto-pilliaging of its files in the event of a successful invasion--by space aliens!

Oh come on! Aliens is just silly!!

Thu Apr 17, 2003 20:12

Surely you don't believe that? The only people that would want to draw that kind of a link would be rightwingers that want to try and ignore what the US is up to in Iraq!! And I'm sure you're not one of those?

Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman

by Aunt Jemima

Fri Apr 18, 2003 08:53

What's going on. It seems ironists are using double irony to make fun of stright-up single-order ironists. I'm just plain confused.

Or is everybody being serious? [gasps]

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