Julia wrote:
> I'm wondering just how much you heard about the joking about what sort > of job the Information Minister could have gotten in the US afterward. > There was a rather funny one about him joining a sportscasting team and > inflating one team's performance at the expense of the other, and being > totally inaccurate, of course. :) I missed all the Al-Sahaf jokes/humour. Well, there *was* this lovely website I saw once: 'Al-Sahaf down the ages'. He was commenting on the Norman invasion, the Crusades, the American War of Independence, French revolution, Normandy landing and a number of other key events. :) > I know people who were tuning in to > see his live daily updates just so's they could laugh. I never missed a single Al-Sahaf press conference. I enjoyed him too much. :) I recently came across an interview of his wherein he explains his delightful phraseology during the war: "I had to come up with something unique that would attract people's attention, particularly because we were targeted by 56 hostile radio stations. People were flooded with propaganda from the other side. Even Iraqi cabinet members (such as Mulla Huwaidh) were exposed to psychological warfare. Some of them even received telephone calls from the United States, from Atlanta, Georgia. The caller, Americans speaking weak Arabic, would threaten and curse them. I had to come up with something remarkable to combat that propaganda war." I would say that his strategy was successful, at least to the extent of ensuring his visibility. :) He said something quite amusing in the same interview: "Southern resistance was a big sigh of relief. Iraqis in the South met the invaders with resistance, not with flowers as their propaganda machines lied to people." For some reason, I am tickled by the notion of Saddam, Al Sahaf et al watching the news with bated breath, wondering how the Iraqi people would react. I wonder if any of them thought about *why* they had reached a state where they weren't even sure of how their own people would react to an invasion. > [And right here is where you insert whatever joke about Fox News you may > care to make.] I don't know any. :( Ritu GCU Enlighten Me Please _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
