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Iraqi Joke About Capture Of Saddam Ash

Juan Cole 12/15/2003

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Iraqi Joke about the Capture of Saddam

Ash-Sharq al-Awsat says the following is making the rounds in Baghdad:

‘Muhammad Said al-Sahhaf, the former Information Ministry spokesman [known in the West as Baghdad Bob], was reached for comment about the arrest of Saddam. Al-Sahhaf denied that the US had captured the former Iraqi leader. “The man they arrested is Santa Claus,” he said.’

I guess you had to be there.

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Juan Cole is the founder and chief editor of Informed Comment. He is Richard P. Mitchell Professor of History at the University of Michigan He is author of, among many other books, Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires and The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Follow him on Twitter at @jricole or the Informed Comment Facebook Page

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