Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf Quotes
We butchered the force present at the airport, we are destroying them.
Al-Sahaf, Mohammed Saeed. Press Briefing. CNN, 4 Apr. 2003.
He was retired when he appeared. It was shortly after the September 11 attack and the Taliban Government of Afghanistan was giving sanctuary to Al Qaida and bin Laden. The President had given them an ultimatum to turn them over.
At the time the President denied that he had decided to invade Iraq. Skelton saw the “handwriting on the world.”
He grossly underestimated the intensity of the American patriotic feeling and the fighting ability of the Colonists. He Commanded the Royal Marines at the Battle of Bunker Hill where he was killed by a shot fired by ex-slave and Black Patriot, Peter Salem. Note the recommendation to destroy towns. At the time, that was considered improper in warfare between nations, yet it was not so clear in fighting a rebellion. However, this was against British policy and it was not a tactic employed in trying to suppress the American Revolution.
Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf also known as Baghdad Bob or Comical Ali, is an Iraqi former diplomat and politician. He came to worldwide prominence around the 2003 invasion of Iraq, during which he was the Media and Foreign Affairs Minister under Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, acting as spokesman for the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party and Saddam's government.
