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| Web Site for Iraqi Minister Rocks Cyberspace |
| 2003-04-11 |
| All Info Man- All The Time... A member of Saddam Hussein's vanquished regime has sprung up as an unlikely hero in cyberspace on a Web site embraced by both supporters and foes of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq. Television news junkies transfixed by daily briefings by Iraqi Minister of Information Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf are now logging onto a day-old Web site featuring his finest invective against U.S. and British "infidels." The site, (http:/www.WeLoveTheIraqiInformationMinister.com), is a "coalition effort of bloodthirsty hawks and ineffectual doves" united in their admiration for al-Sahaf and his pronouncements, such as: "I now inform you that you are too far from reality." That'll be Info Man's epitath. Among al-Sahaf's now-famous declarations was: "There are no American infidels in Baghdad. Never!" Writer and former Greenpeace activist Kieran Mulvaney, a Briton living in Alaska, said he and friends got the idea for the site while watching cable news coverage of the three-week-old war. "I mentioned to one of my friends that the best part is watching this guy," Mulvaney told Reuters on Thursday. "He is so brazen that I could almost admire him." A Greenpeace guy with a sense of humor? The world has changed. Mulvaney and his friends designed, built and put up the site in three days. Within hours of going live on the Internet, the site "has exploded," Mulvaney said. The same day, U.S. troops marched into Baghdad and al-Sahaf disappeared, or in the view of his new Web site, went on "administrative leave.I hope he is alive somewhere so he knows how famous he has become," Mulvaney said. "We've had all kinds of e-mail from literally all over the world. We even had a few e-mails from within the Pentagon saying, 'We really like this guy and we miss him."' The site already is offering T-shirts and mugs bearing al-Sahaf's best-loved statements ("My feelings -- as usual -- we will slaughter them all!") and has selected actor and director Sydney Pollack to play the information minister in the Hollywood version of the war. In the meantime, Mulvaney said he will appeal for sightings of al-Sahaf, and there are plans to poll fans about what the beret-wearing minister should do after the war. One fan has advocated an urgent campaign to spare al-Sahaf if he is found: "He is too much of a global asset to be murdered/shot/stabbed or otherwise wasted." The tobacco companies, the oil companies, France, the UN... this guy could make millions. |
| Posted by:tu3031 |
| #5 "Ist dis Nazi land so good? Vould you leave it if you could? Ja! Did Nazi land ist good! Ve vould leave it, if ve could!" Nazis were kinda the definition of bad. What Spike Jones did to them is still hilarious. Poking fun at evil deflates it. I wish them great luck with their web site, even after Info Man has a neck three feet long. |
| Posted by: Fred 2003-04-11 15:00:19 |
| #4 If anyone wants to check out the site, wait until tomorrow per the webmasters. They didn't think it would be this popular, and it overwhelmed the server. |
| Posted by: Former Russian Major 2003-04-11 11:16:57 |
| #3 Well, this is all entertaining and fun---for a limited time. Let us not forget who Mr. al-Sahaf represented, and let us not forget the millions killed, maimed, and tortured under the Ba'athist Party. I am amused for a day or two with this guy, and then I think about what this regime did and I am not amused any more. Greenpeace Boy up here in Alaska better take a second look. This Iraq thing is a bloody, nasty miserable page in human history. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2003-04-11 10:45:42 |
| #2 another classic, hilarious, award-winning moment in the war |
| Posted by: anon1 2003-04-11 09:30:48 |
| #1 I just wanna hear him say this line: "I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky." See if he can top the Master. |
| Posted by: Dar 2003-04-11 09:11:39 |