Muhammad Saeed al-Sahhaf
Muhammad Saeed al-Sahhaf | |
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Al-Sahhaf on state television in March 2003 | |
| Minister of Information | |
| In office 2001 – 9 April 2003 | |
| President | Saddam Hussein |
| Preceded by | Humam Abd al-Khaliq Abd al-Ghafur |
| Succeeded by | Ministry dissolved |
| Minister of Foreign Affairs | |
| In office 6 June 1992 – 23 April 2001 | |
| President | Saddam Hussein |
| Preceded by | Tariq Aziz |
| Succeeded by | Naji Sabri |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Muhammad Saeed al-Sahhaf 1940 (age 85–86) |
| Party | Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party – Iraq Region |
| Alma mater | Baghdad University |
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Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf (Arabic: محمد سعيد الصحاف; Muḥammad Saʿīd Al-Ṣaḥḥāf; born 1940) is an Iraqi former diplomat and politician. He served as Iraq's minister of foreign affairs from 1992 to 2001 and later became the Iraqi minister of information. Al-Sahhaf came to worldwide prominence during the 2003 invasion of Iraq when he acted as a spokesman for Saddam Hussein's government. He has been nicknamed Baghdad Bob and Comical Ali due to his colorful and blatantly inaccurate media pronouncements.