'Comical Ali' kept broadcasting until the last minute - War on Iraq - smh.com.au 'Comical Ali' kept broadcasting until the last minute
May 5 2003
Iraq's former information minister Mohammad Saeed al-Sahhaf kept broadcasting until the last minute while Bagdad was being destroyed around him.
Then he slipped out of the door, taking off his trademark black beret, turned down his collar to hide his red general's tabs and wrapped a scarf around his head, reports said yesterday.
As the US tanks rumbled into the Iraqi capital, the man known as "Comical Ali" haunted a radio studio in Baghdad, urging engineers to carry on broadcasting Saddam Hussein's propaganda, even after his leader's statue was toppled on April 9, London's Sunday Telegraph newspaper reported.
May 5 2003
Iraq's former information minister Mohammad Saeed al-Sahhaf kept broadcasting until the last minute while Bagdad was being destroyed around him.
Then he slipped out of the door, taking off his trademark black beret, turned down his collar to hide his red general's tabs and wrapped a scarf around his head, reports said yesterday.
As the US tanks rumbled into the Iraqi capital, the man known as "Comical Ali" haunted a radio studio in Baghdad, urging engineers to carry on broadcasting Saddam Hussein's propaganda, even after his leader's statue was toppled on April 9, London's Sunday Telegraph newspaper reported.
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