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| Iraq |
| Comical Ali detained |
| 2003-06-24 |
| 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. "He kept walking up and askimg if we knew who he was" There was no immediate reaction from Washington on Wednesday. Like anyone outside the mental healthcare field cared? 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 ofthe story and no other sourcing. Assign him to a sympathetic Americorps volunteer |
| Posted by:Frank G |