Tikkabik

Hi!

I'm from Portugal, a country which fortunately enjoys an immensely greater freedom of the press than the USA - a truth that has been made glaringly obvious during the Invasion of Iraq, in which the US media coverage of the war sunk to Soviet levels.

My point about al-Sahaf is: is it even conceivable that the discourse of the official spokesman of a country at war could be other than to proclaim victory at all times? Are you all suggesting that if the war turned out badly for the "coallition", the Pentagon spokesdrones would be informing us faithfully of US defeats in the field?

What you don't realize is that, by making fun of al-Sahaf, you're just showing to the world the obscene spectacle of racist minds at work.

And, hey: how many times did the "coallition" forces capture Basra? How many dozen top iraqui generals surrendered in the first week of war? How many times WMDs were discovered? Etc., etc.

One last thing: living in a free country, and having followed the Invasion of Iraq with much interest, I got to know, by watching TV in the comfort of my living room, the true Private Lynch story - and, I tell you, it is very, very different than the cheap propaganda you're beeing fed...

I may reveal reveal here the true "Saving Private Lynch" story, but only if you ask me nicely - for all I care, you anglos may live with your pathetic brainwashed brains for the rest of your lives.

Take care, Disneyworlders.

You're welcome to lay whatever spin you want.

If you're expecting me to ask anything of you nicely after suggesting that I'm a racist and calling me a "Disneyworlder," whatever the fuck that's supposed to mean, I'm inclined to tell you to shove it up your ass.

To the person in portugal
OH MY GOD!!! Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf is in Portugal!!!
I'm humbled to read a message from someone in contact with God. Because at this point that's the only way someone could tell their media NEVER tells anything but the absolute true. Free press sometimes rushes to get the story out first. A really free person learns to listen to more than one source.
Us anglos? Cut me some slack. Who's being rasist? No no has said anything about his ancestry. Only about his almost comical propaganda. Even you will have to admit that Al-Zazirra isn't "a freind" of the "Coalition". Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf said"I blame Al-Jazeera - they are marketing for the Americans!"
Anyway I sure do hope he gets his own comedy show when this is all over.
Here's a site with some of his better quotes
http://www.welovetheiraqiinformationminister.com/

"We made them drink poison last night and Saddam Hussein's soldiers and his great forces gave the Americans a lesson which will not be forgotten by history. Truly."Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf, Iraqi Minister of Information. (In away he's right)

Hola,

Please tell me "the true 'Saving Private Lynch' story". And as a Spanish speaking German living in Texas, let me tell you that 30% of the people here are Hispanic, and that their portion of the population grows every day, so don't assume all the U.S. is "Gringos"! ;-)

Luitgard

"What you don't realize is that, by making fun of al-Sahaf, you're just showing to the world the obscene spectacle of racist minds at work."

You mean making fun of someone is inherently racist?

Remind me never to go to Portugal...

See you later, corky.

One of the classic traits of a true warrior is that he respect his enemy. Americans now days think that just because they are declaring war on a country that the enemy soldiers are fools, cowards, inherently evil or unhuman. Therefore, you cannot respect the enemy at all. This is foolish. The Iraqi information minister has a thousand times the Personality of Meyers or that Centcom Briefer. The US lies as much as the Iraqis, but the Iraqi does it in style. As to freedom of press. More and more, antiwar is seen in the US as "anti-american." Opposition to particular politicians or policy is now seen as treason.

That is some major bullshit coming out of Portugal!

At least the man had entertainment-value wich is more than one can say about Bloody Bush...
I do not support the former Iraqi-regime but because they were bad doesn't make the USA oiljunkies right.If you have two bad sides one should judge the style and than "Mo" wins after all...

Asslam o Alaykum
Dear Saeed
Where you are now ,hopefully WITH HELP OF GOD You will be healthy and safe, this is a war tactics, every body has to play but you play very well even you are very weak as compare CNN.

THE BEST WE CAN SAY ABOUT MR.SAHAF IS THAT HE AT LEAST ENTERTAINED ME WITH MANY WORD PHASES THAT DON'T COME TO MIND OFFEN.

There is no doubt! That we are missing Mohamed Saeed al-Sahaf very much. Here is Tanzania he is a hero. Wherever you are Saeed, be assured that we love you so much.

Hi Guys,
Mohamed Saeed Al-Sahaf is a war Hero.He did all he could to make Sure that Sadam Hussein escapes from American and his friend British.He made American top leaders not sleep thinking how to win the war.Mohamed is the key person in this war and he will never be forgotten.We love you Mohamed Saeed Al-Sahaf...Bravo brother.

Nurdin.

"WE ARE IN CONTROL" This is one of the best of Saeed Al-Sahaf, Bravo Saeed

Hi there

I tend to agree with the person from Portugal..
I think that most of what he is saying is right.
As far as the "kiss my ass" comments from Mr. Peter Cohen, then this clearly reflects the typical American mentality and proves some of the points that the person from Portugal was making.
I think that the world would be a much safer palce without US invasions of other countries.

David Coen from the UK:

You're missing the point. Just because I'm taking the piss of Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf doesn't make me a racist.

The anonymous Portuguese person's comments don't prove jack-shit except that he's coming across every bit as xenophobic and narrow-minded as he's accusing Americans of being.

There's this instant, knee-jerk reaction I've seen both here in the States and abroad to categorize everyone and everything. It's human behavior, and like a lot of human behavior, it's petty, worthless crap: French drink stinky wine and eat stinky cheese. Mexicans are lazy. Germans are all Nazis. British have bad teeth. Americans are fat and ignorant. Muslims are terrorists. Asians are good at math. And so on.

Deduction of a general state of being from the casual observation of individuals is, by its very nature, inaccurate.

So get off your high horse, David Coen from the UK. Me telling the anonymous portuguese person to kiss my ass isn't an indictment of the US, and it's shameful for either of you to try to make it an international incident.

Hi there
Instead of making fun of the Iraqi Information minister, you should try to stop these fantatics in Washington who are going to destroy our World

I just have to say that saying Peter Cohen is racist shows: 1) Clearly you don't know the man, 2) You can't read.

Yo, home boy from Portugal! I live in what could be called the Bush family's home town, Houston, and I'm African-American as are over a third of the people in this city. About another third of the people are Hispanic, so Anglos are the minority here. If anyone is racist and uninformed, it someone who thinks all the people here should be called Anglos. We are a multi-ethnic and multi-racial society and Anglos will soon be a minority of the people in the entire U.S. If anyone looks to be living in a white folk's fantasy Disney World, it's you!

I feel the need to tell you that many devout Muslims have also seen the funny side of al-Sahhaf's eccentric ways.
From the dailytelegraph.co.uk

"He makes me smile," said Essam al-Erian, a leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt's largest Islamic group. "Mohammed Sahhaf is the joke of the war."

And from, http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,58452-2,00.html it is said the we Arabs were the first to see that Al-Sahaf was amusing, perhaps by design:

"Al-Sahaf's brand of humor may have caught on in the Arab world first. While a lot of western commentators took his absurd pronouncements at face value, Faisal Salman, an editor of the Lebanese As-Safir newspaper, wrote that Arab TV viewers 'are eager to listen to his funny words.'"

Mr Cohen, I think that your knee-jerk comments were clever, but direction taken by an 'elected' official in a democratic society doesn't fall into your 'casual observation' category. cheers

I am an arab Lebanese Maronite(catholic),and i think that mohammad said al sahaf the minister of information in Iraq,is one of the greatest information minister man on earth.WE LOVE THIS MAN especially that he knew how to face the fucken information war leaded by the stupid americans ass hole.

Hi!
I`m from Taiwan where is near the Mainland China.
I hope Mr. Sahaf is safe now and not commit sucide
as the mass media was said! I`m pround of you though I`m not your people!!

At begining I think I don`t care the war because it`s far from me, but now I see the news everday on TV. I think it`s wrong! And war is so terrible!
I hate it.

A La will bless you all!

نتمنى النصر والعزة لدين الله وان يحفظ لنا جنوده اينما كانو...

Let's be realistic, I could sit all of you in one room, make you all watch the same exact coverage of the war, and each and everyone of you would make your own interpretation of what you had witnessed. So be it! War is not pretty, nor is it kind, but the fact of the matter is, lives are being lost on both sides of the fence. Propaganda can be positive or negative, it's just a matter of who's truly ahead at the time. And anyone can write comments about their opinion, whether or not they really know what the hell is going on enough to make an educated comment is what truly makes the difference. There is intolerance all over the world among many different races, but if the iraqi people have been treated badly under Sadaam's regime, then I pray for their freedom and safety, and even if America is wrong, I still pray that something good will happen for the Iraqi people. I am an American born and raised, but just think, Iraqi people were not allowed to speak out against their government, but yet all of you have the freedom to express your views as you did on this page. Hopefully the Iraqi people will be able to disagree openly in the near future when they think they are being mistreated. Who cares where al-Sahaf is, for those of you who love him, may he be safe, for those of you who don't, he will one day answer to his creator. Until then, whatever your religion may be, may you keep your faith and be blessed. Tammy, Florida USA

Mohammed Saeed wouldn't know a coilition army if it rolled over his head. What a moron.

Oh my. I've been getting my war news from BBC World, and I like it. Yes, war is bad, and yes, the civilians are victims. That being said, try out THIS web site... http://welovetheiraqiinformationminister.com/

It's funny. Peace... Love.. Rock'n'Roll!

The most important task for u.s. media is to lie to it's own people. It sickens me to see that even the other countries are bying the same propaganda.

U.S. is behaving pretty much the way like roman slave masters in regards of the rest of the world. You should see some of the documentaries about it. The freedom that U.S. is dictating to others is soon directly measurable by the length of chain you are carrying.

hope al-sahaf is ok, may the colonists cowards fail!

I consider it would be a great shame were the rumours that Al-Sahaf has committed suicide true. I consider that he would have been a great candidate for British Politics. His ability to be economical with the truth would have indeed been an asset in such a career.

It's al very well making light of the comments and statements made by Mohamed Saeed Al-Sahaf, but the fact of the matter is clear, if he had NOT made such statements then the Iraqis that continued to fight BECAUSE they believed him would have given up earlier and therefore there would have beel less death on the whole. If the man is indeed still alive and has not commited suicide by hanging, then he should indeed be hung for his crimes of inciting his people to fight and die in the face of impossible odds.

If on the other hand he is dead,then he should rott in hell.

If Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf is dead then he was faithful unto death and his integrity is undimmed,if he is still alive then I think the joke's on us.

I hope he finishes his autobiography soon, must be this year's best seller. I can't wait.the sheer unadulterated gall of the man, but you know, he couldn't keep a straight face right through his speeches.

Does someone know why Mohamed al-Sahaf isn't one of the playing cards ? Any hint wellcome !

i am sorry to have to inform you all, that, you are all going to die, this fact is inescapable, you will all die like the dogs that you are picking on the bones for scraps to clothe yourselves and in pretense of hiding your shames...........
mohamed saeed al - sahaf

well,

al-sahhaf has out done him self. i think he is a brilliant man and media gooro. For the first time, i think the Arabic media outperformed the western one in the news coverage. Al-Sahaf is one of a kind. He managed till the lasat minute to put the AMERICAN, BRITS AND AUSTRALIANS on thier tows till the end. Your war is illegitimate. u never come to plant the seeds of the so called DEMOCRACY. your politians are the sick ones. Just tell me where is the SO CALLED WMD???? Didn't powell lie in UN. have they found any smoking Gun??? Guess not??? did the looting stop??? guess not??? did they provide protection for everything??? Guess not??? or did they provide protection for the Oil Ministry and the field sonly??/ Guess so...

the bullshit talk about freeing the Iraqi People is horseshit.. and the biggest lie ever... Israel has been planted in the ARAB WORLD since 1948... There are more than 100 UN Resolutions against this regime of terrorists led by Sharon.. Has anyone including the American or the Brits managed for a minute to say they asre terrorists though they have been killing the Palestinians for more than 50 years.... ( The original and rightful owners of Palestine)... has American managed to have THE UN to go inside the Hebrew State and check the HUNDREDS OF NUCLEAR BOMBS IT HAS...

We live in a world opf Hipocracy where right is wrong and wrong is right.... Your sickness will never stop.. and our resistance will never end..

Al-SAHAF IS A DECENT MAN. AT LEAST HE HAD THE BALLS AND GUTS TO STAND UP FOR HUS BELIEVES...

well my freinds as you are all aware i am now unemployed, yes it saddens me to say but even working for a glorius dictator is no guarantee of a job for life, fortunately for me my dreams of making dolls for a living has now been realised, even though it means i will now now have to adjust my life to whimms of the infidel imperialist who insist that i be paid for the work i do and that i should have a large house and many more freedoms, you can be assured that there will allways be a part of me that spits on such imperialist views and long for the glorius day to return when such nonsense can be brought down about thier ankles........
mohamed saeed al - sahaf

p.s. monty python have asked me to star in a film

>>by making fun of al-Sahaf, you're just showing to the world the obscene spectacle of racist minds at work>>

Bullshit ! His race has nothing to do with it.
We are laughing simply because he was so damn funny.
His insults against Bush and Blair were funny.
No one in the West was offended by his insults, which could be regarded as 'racist' in themselves, if you want to go down that track. We were not offended when he insulted our leaders.
We were too busy laughing, to be !
I,like a lot of people around the world admire the man. He was fucking funny ! That's all.
Just leave it at that.

>>by making fun of al-Sahaf, you're just showing to the world the obscene spectacle of racist minds at work>>

Bullshit ! His race has nothing to do with it.
We are laughing simply because he was so damn funny.
His insults against Bush and Blair were funny.
No one in the West was offended by his insults, which could be regarded as 'racist' in themselves, if you want to go down that track. We were not offended when he insulted our leaders.
We were too busy laughing, to be !
I,like a lot of people around the world admire the man. He was f.u.c.k.i.n.g funny ! That's all.
Just leave it at that.

MOHAMED SAEED AL SAHAF IS A TRUE HERO AND HAS NOT AND WILL NEVER COMMIT SUCIDE AS SUGGESTED BY WESTERN CORWARDS. ITS BUSH AND BLAIR WHO SHOULD COMMIT SUCIDE FOR THEIR CRIMES AGAINST CHILDREN LIKE ALI ABASS WHO LOST BOTH ARMS FOR THE SO CALLED WEAPORNS OF MASS DESTRUCTION.

WHEN LITTLE ALI WAS ASKED BY A REPORTER HOW HE FELT HE SAID , EVEN A MOUNTAIN COULD STAND MY PAIN ,MY WHOLE BODY ACHES DAY AND NIGHT.

" MOHAMED SAEED AL SAHAF IS A TRUE HERO "

He is/was a liar and he didn't care that he was putting civilians in jeopardy by telling them it was safe to go out on the streets of Iraq.
Shame.
He should have instructed his poeple to either stay in their homes or leave the cities and allow "the slautghter of the infidels" to be handled by the Iraqi army.

Come on, Bush, come on, Blair, where are the weapons of mass destruction? The US peeps are so f*cked up down there in Iraq they have to resort to spinning tales about Sahaf?

I support Mr.Sahaf forever!

Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf is a great man !

He is a hero !

Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf,you are a great hero !

Arabs you bastards, you are being fucked by your own leaders who are taking your oil and your freedom. At least America will take your oil and give you your freedom and dignity. Kiss Imkon!

Israelis, you dick heads, why don't you fucking learn that you are not special in any way unless you do something exceptionally special and be human for once in your existence. Kiss Imkon!

Americans, Stop patronising us with your bullshit talk about you wanting to liberate the Iraqi people. Since when were you Jesus Christ to free humanity? Oh by the way, what happened to the North American Indian? Did you 'liberate' them too? Saddam you claim has WMD true he might, but at least he used them on his own people and not on others list Hiroshima and Naghazaki. Kiss Imkon!

British: Go eat your fish'n'chips and moan about the weather you beer swilling fools. You knew all along that your attack on Iraq was unjustified but could not say or do anything. The strong will only be strong among the weak, and YOU are weak. Kiss Imkon!

Fuck the Arabs, fuck the Israelis, fuck religion and fuck you too!

Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf is the true heir of Salah al-Din,not that thug Saddam.He remained loyal to the end to his leader his people and his God.If he has chosen to take his own life rather than live under a barbarian army of occupation then what right have we to gainsay his choice.I will miss you,but I know that the bird that flies in God's garden does not long for the dust of this Earth.May Allah receive you kindly.

COME BACK ALI,
A CARING WAR NEEDS YOU.WE ALL NEED OUR DAILY LAUGH
SO PLEASE COME BACK ........King ALI.

to all you pig ignorant yanks or yankee lovers!
the only bastard out in the Gulf is Saddam,
(only because George,wwwww,Bush has,nt got the
brains of a dead fly to relise he IS THE WAR MONGER, he is worse than saddam hussien, and my
he ROT IN HELL, American wanker

To George wuballyou Bush,
HIYA WUBALLYOU,
When are you thinking of finishing the 1st war you
started off? typical yank, never finishes a job he starts! This World will be a better place with-out war-mongers like you,Smile on T.V. and get some more applause, you dich-head

In the U.K., al-Sahaf fans launched a petition to get him his own TV show with the BBC. The petition had attracted nearly 500 signatures by Friday afternoon. "This guy is a classic comedian," wrote one signatory. "We want more."
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,58452-2,00.html

Where is Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf?

I will never tell you, American dogs of midget W. Bush Jr.

Portuguese will tell you if you nice be to him. The real story is known in Portugal. Do not believe imperialist propaganda of racist Yankee wanker media who have brain of dead fly. They live in Disneyworld and are brainwashed-Goofy from circling Uranius in search of Pluto and Micky Mouse.

Also, do not try torture tactics of barbaric invading oiljunkies or I will tell you "real story of saving Private Lynch."

I am an not arab Lebanese Maronite(catholic),but I am Catholic and therefore must be an expert on information ministers.

And i think that Mohammad Saeed al Sahaf the minister of information in Iraq,is one of the greatest information minister man on earth.WE LOVE THIS MAN especially that he knew how to face the fucken information war leaded by the stupid americans ass hole.

???? OK, I get it now!

U.S. roman slave masters will fail in attempt and their bad tooth U.K. cronies and Aussie beer drinking who have not found smoking gun of WMD.

They cannot bear mountain of pain soon to be them handled by the Iraqi army in their slautghter of the infidels. They are surrounded, but not in Bagdahd, because they are not there, not within 100 miles.

Besides Portuguese, Jimbo is one only who knows also real story. In fact he was f.u.c.k.i.n.g right.

100% agree:
"I,like a lot of people around the world admire the man. He was f.u.c.k.i.n.g funny ! That's all."

If he wasn't so funny, no one would be asking the question, "where's Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf?"

I wish him well, wherever he is, he was just doing his job.

the best ever i saw in iraqi minister or authority he makes all arabs proud of themselves he made the americans soldier really worried for the whole period of the war ... man wish you still alive and there in iraq :)

we miss alsahaf speeches.. where are u ?? there are words that i didnt understand !??

Noor from Qatar

I think Sahaf didn't lie at all up to the last two days of the war. Actually, the other side was telling all the lies. When Sahaf said Basra, etc.. was under "our" control he was teliing the truth. Remember, Basra fell under British control after Bagdad did. Also, the Centcom admitted that a rocket was launched into Kuwait from the Fao area which is almost at the border with Kuwait, and that happened just a couple of days before the end of the war. Sahaf excaggarated all the time but didn't say anything that is completely wrong like the coalition did. However, during the last couple of days we started hearing unbelieveable lies from Sahaf. Why? I think it is because the iraqis were preparing to flee Bagdad (after they have struck a deal with the americans, of course).
So I think that Sahaf is still alive, but the bad news is that this means Saddam is still alive too.
As to my political stand, I don't have any nice feeling for Sahaf as he is part of a terrible regime. But he was funney. Actually he wasn't even a lier, cause even when he lied he did it in such a way that it was obvious he didn't believe himself, nor did he expect others to belive it either. It was like a game for him. I prefer him to the american/british liers who lie and present a face of sobriety and honesty. Sahaf wasn't a hypocrite as are/were the americans/british. But that doesn't mean I like him. I really believe he will roast in hell.

Looks like he's running for president

http://www.sahhaf-in-2004.com

you had crucified saeed for telling a few lies and let free a president who lied all the way to commit the greatest mass murder of the century...

I think AlSahaf has gone with 20 or 30 young women to a wonderful house in Syria with also 5 or 6 billion dollars and he says:fuck you all

I forgot,Italy support totally the allied forces in Iraq,and i support the road map of G.W.BUSH

نتمنى النصر والعزة لدين الله وان يحفظ لنا جنوده اينم

it was an incradble political man....

HALLO

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CIAO A TUTTI

where are you

Interesting.

Hey Portugal,

You are so misinformed. I live in Massachusetts. The city I live in is 50% Anglo and the other 50% is Black, Hispanic and Asian. In case you don't remember the USA is a very diverse nation. Your ignorance is showing.

Hey Protugal;

Tell me about your right to bear arms in your "free" country.