LONDON -- Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf, Iraq's information minister at
the end of deposed Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein's regime, has been
captured in Baghdad, a British newspaper claimed on
Wednesday.
The Daily Mirror said al-Sahaf -- nicknamed 'Comical Ali' for his
robust denials that Baghdad was falling to US troops -- was snared
in his car at a US military roadblock on Monday.
In a dispatch from Baghdad, it said his captors allowed him to go
back to a house where he had apparently been holed up with his wife
and three children 'to collect a toothbrush, razor and book'.
'He has some serious talking to do... this time,' the tabloid,
which had strongly opposed the US-led war to oust Saddam, quoted a
'senior coalition source' as saying. -- AFP
