Dubai, June 27: Former Iraqi information minister Mohammed Said as-Sahhaf, who dropped out of sight after the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime, has said in a television interview that he knew nothing about his ex-boss. "I know nothing," Sahhaf said appearing in a television interview in Baghdad yesterday when asked whether he knew anything about "the former leadership."
He refused to comment on a suggestion that "it was the Iraqis, not America, who toppled Saddam" by failing to resist the US-led invasion forces. Sahhaf became famous for his upbeat assessments of the military situation that were in stark contrast with developments on the ground. He said the information he gave out was correct at the time, but the "interpretation" of this information by Iraqi officials was not accurate.
The television channel aired the interview shortly after another Dubai-based news channel broadcast excerpts of an interview with Sahhaf in which he said he had turned himself in to US forces who released him after questioning. This is the first television appearance by Sahhaf since the demise of Saddam's regime on April 9. Bureau Report