JoltinJacket
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Per Sky News
Quote:Comical Ali is alive and living in a Baghdad suburb - and still wearing his trademark uniform and beret, according to reports.
The Mail on Sunday said it had tracked down the former Iraqi information minister, ending speculation he had committed suicide or fled the country.
The newspaper said it found him "cowering in his modest home, terrified his own people will kill him".
They said his wife and daughter act as his human shields while his sons had temporarily left their jobs as doctors to help protect him.
The paper described Ali - full name Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf - as "a broken man, spending his days pacing his study in his uniform and green beret".
He refused to talk to the paper and friends said he may never go out in public again.
"The family are worried he is going out of his mind", it reported one friend as saying.
Al-Sahaf was dubbed Comical Ali after his outrageous denials of the US-led advance into Iraq.
He told the world there were no US troops in Baghdad while TV viewers watched American tanks roll through the Iraqi capital's streets.
<a href='http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30200-12334395,00.html' target='_blank'>http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,3020...2334395,00.html</a>
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Idea for Fox: Since Baghdad Bob is practically a beloved figure over here, why not just go all the way and make him a celebrity? Fly Bob and family over here, put them up in a nice house in California or something, have them live out the American dream. Record every moment.
I'm telling ya, it's a winner! :D :D :D
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He could take Geraldo's spot.
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Aside from everyone thinking he was comedy relief.....he got Americans killed by instilling morale in the inferior Iraqi troops.
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T-Monay820
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RebelKev Wrote:Aside from everyone thinking he was comedy relief.....he got Americans killed by instilling morale in the inferior Iraqi troops.
Did the Iraqi soldiers even know that he was on TV? I doubt they get it in the field, and its really hard to watch TV while running away from M1 Abrams. Besides, its not likely they believe him while holding their hands above their heads at gunpoint.
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| 06-06-2003 07:39 PM |
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T-Monay820 Wrote:RebelKev Wrote:Aside from everyone thinking he was comedy relief.....he got Americans killed by instilling morale in the inferior Iraqi troops.
Did the Iraqi soldiers even know that he was on TV? I doubt they get it in the field, and its really hard to watch TV while running away from M1 Abrams. Besides, its not likely they believe him while holding their hands above their heads at gunpoint.
I was thinking more of the civilians still loyal to Saddam. I was in the military. You'd be surprised about how information is disemminated.
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