Minister of Delusion hiding at home

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Found at news.google.com:

http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_269...01300180038.htm

 

Comical Ali alive and still in uniform

Vijay Dutt

London, 

 

The former Iraqi Information Minister Moammad Saeed Al-Sahaf is alive and is living in a suburban Baghdad street with his family, who fear for his mental stability.

 

He has been tracked down by the sleuthing journalists of Sunday Mail. The report says that he is still wearing his trademark green beret and uniform.

 

There were reports of his committing suicide while some said he had escaped to Iran and was negotiating his surrender. But the Sunday Mail reports, "we reveal Saddam's mouthpiece is cowering in his modest home, terrified his own people will kill him."

 

People in Baghdad are angry that he told them and the world during one of his TV press conference there were no American troops in Baghdad while soldiers of the US army could be seen behind him. But, he vanished as Saddam's statute was toppled.

 

One government worker Hassan Abbas told the Mail, "We hate Al-Sahaf for claiming Baghdad was safe. He was still shouting at us on TV while I was hiding under my desk in a hail of bullet. Many people want to kill him."

 

His wife Lamia and daughter Thefaf are acting as his human shield while his two doctor sons Ziad and Isama, have taken unofficial leave so they can help protect him.

 

Al-Sahaf, says the paper, is a broken man spending his days pacing his study, in his uniform and green beret. He is said to have had lucrative offers from US and Arab TV stations but despises what he calls the warped adulation. Al-Jazeera was also at one time said to be negotiating with him.

 

He refused to talk to Sunday Mail. His friends have said that Al-Sahaf may never go public again. His family is worried he is going out of is mind.

 

His fear of vengeance deepened when a fortnight ago his neighbour and former culture director was killed in a hail of bullets as he sat in his garden.

 

The US army personnel do a regular tank roll-by his house to stop the locals attacking him. Al-Sahaf's third son is a doctor at the well-known Beaumont hospital in Dublin. There he is now called Surgical Ali. He said, "My father is a good man he needs rest."

 

Whatever it be Al-Sahaf has become a living legend. His sayings are now immortalised on T-shirts and mugs, and a website is updated daily by his legions of fans. In Britain, he will indeed be safe and may be adulated by a large number of fans. They continue to recount his "comical gems" during his famous press conferences.

 

I still want Caesars Palace to dump Celine Dion and give this guy his own revue.

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Thank God he is still alive. He was the one force that brought all people together during the war. No matter what you thought of the war, or where you fall on the political spectrum, one thing was true: This guy was funny.