“The information was correct but the interpretations were not. I did my duty up to the last minute.”
New York Times (12 July 2003) "AFTER THE WAR; Hussein's Perennial Optimist Reappears"
Mohamed Said al-Sahaf , fue un político y diplomático de Irak durante el régimen de Sadam Husein. Perteneciente al Partido Baaz, desempeñó importantes cargos de diplomático, así como los cargos de Ministro de Exteriores entre 1992-2001 y de Ministro de Información desde 2001 a 2003. Se hizo mundialmente conocido por ser el portavoz oficial del régimen durante la Guerra de Irak, en 2003. Su preocupación por la censura, y sus discursos de propaganda excéntricos y surrealistas durante la guerra, causó que a nivel internacional se le apodase satíricamente como Alí el Cómico,[1] o Baghdad Bob, en Estados Unidos. Wikipedia
“The information was correct but the interpretations were not. I did my duty up to the last minute.”
New York Times (12 July 2003) "AFTER THE WAR; Hussein's Perennial Optimist Reappears"
BBC Monitoring (7 April 2003) "Iraqi information minister denies presence of US forces in Baghdad" (as US forces reported entering the center of Baghdad)
“The American press is all about lies! All they tell is lies, lies and more lies!”
As quoted in A Gigantic Mistake (2004) by Mickey Z, p. 171
“I now inform you that you are too far from reality.”
Statement to John Burns of The New York Times among his last words to western reporters before going on administrative leave (9 April 2003), as quoted in Politics and Propaganda : Weapons of Mass Seduction (2004) by Nicholas J. O'Shaughnessy, p. 233
As quoted in Baghdad or Bust : The Inside Story of Gulf War 2 (2003) by Mike Ryan, p. 168