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Lisbon - Mohammad Said al-Sahhaf, the Iraqi information minister whose briefings made him a worldwide celebrity during the recent war and who is now high on a list of people wanted by the United States, tried to hand himself in via a contact with Portuguese journalists, a newspaper said on Thursday. The Portuguese daily Diario de Noticias said a family claiming to be sheltering Sahhaf, reportedly in the women's section of a home in a poor neighbourhood of Baghdad, had been in contact with two journalists, but they had failed to come up with the former information chief. The reporters,...

"There are no American infidels in Baghdad. Never!" "My feelings - as usual - we will slaughter them all" "Our initial assessment is that they will all die" "I blame Al-Jazeera - they are marketing for the Americans!" "God will roast their stomachs in hell at the hands of Iraqis." "They're coming to surrender or be burned in their tanks." "No I am not scared, and neither should you be!" "Be assured. Baghdad is safe, protected" "Who are in control, they are not in control of anything - they don't even control themselves!" "We are not afraid of the Americans....

THE son of 'Comical Ali', the well known information minister for Saddam Hussein, who is currently working as a doctor in a Dublin hospital, does not know where his family is. Osama al-Sahhaf described his father, Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf, who has not been seen since Tuesday, as a "good guy". The surgeon who works in Beaumont hospital has not seen his family in two years and hadn't spoken to them in the last six months. He added that he was unaware of the current whereabouts or circumstances of his family. Speaking about his father's political role, Dr Al-Sahhaf told 'The...