NP Treasury of Deathless Quotes

[Otto]

I've read somewhere that this wife has told that he has committed suicide
shortly before the fall of Baghdad. I truly think this would be a loss (if
it's true) because he really was a funny man. They would have put him into
jail if he had survived for telling all those lies and serving the system
for so long but if he hasn't been personally responsible for torture and
murder in the past I see no reason that he shouldn't have looked for a
career in the showbiz later.

"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."
A U.K. soccer site, Football365, has been doing a roaring trade in al-Safah
T-shirts that read, "We are in control."
(...)
-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."
According to reports, Al-Sahaf studied to be an English teacher and a
journalist. He is from Iraq's Shiite minority, and though he's held a number
of ministerial and diplomatic posts under Saddam Hussein, he wasn't
considered an insider."
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,58452-2,00.html

"In contrary to many others Mohammed is not from the area around Saddam's
hometown, Tikrit, but he was born in Hilla, south of Baghdad, in 1940. He
studied journalism and wanted to become an English teacher, but gave that
up. He joined the Baath Party in 1963. After being ambassador to Burma,
Italy, Sweden and the U.N. he became head of the Iraqi broadcasting company.
In 1991 he made it to foreign minister and stayed that for 10 years."
http://croqueweb.com/fan/

I've no access to Fox News, only CNN and luckily BBC, but I've not seen
anybody like him on the coalition side, although Rummy has some entertaining
qualities too. The Doha-briefings were very "dry" and humorless, Gen. Brooks
only catching the eyes of some ladies. How often Basra has been declared
"liberated" with only little "pockets of resistance" before this statement
finally became true?

Otto

----- Original Message -----
From: "joeallonby" <vze422fs at verizon.net>
To: "Otto" <ottosell at yahoo.de>; <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2003 7:31 AM
Subject: Re: NP Treasury of Deathless Quotes


> on 4/15/03 1:26 PM, Otto at ottosell at yahoo.de wrote:
>
> > http://www.welovetheiraqiinformationminister.com/
> >
> >
> Thanks Otto. This man is obviously the greatest satirist of our age.
> Hilariously funny stuff.
>
> My favorites are "I speak better English than this villain Bush" and "Even
> people on other planets, if there are such people......."
>
> He should work for Fox News. Come to think of it, he does work for Fox
News.
>
> Peace
> Joe
>
>