‘Today, the tide has turned, we are destroying them.’ So spoke that great master of modern communication, Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf, better known in the west as Comical Ali or Baghdad Bob. Right to the end, as American tanks rolled past him, Saddam’s spokesman gave the impression that all was well, saying of the Coalition forces that, as ‘soon as they re…
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