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- Sep 28, 2024
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Mr. Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahhaf was the Iraqi Minister of Information during the 2nd Gulf war in 2003 . He was known for his ability to tell mistruths about the conduct of the war, e.g While the American tanks were right on the Jumhoria bridge in Baghdad and within a rifle range from the Palestine Meridian hotel where he was holding a press conference ; he said something like : those Americans who ventured and entered Baghdad, were burnt in their tanks .
He was famous in Iraq and throughout the Arab world during the war for calling the American soldiers “ Ulooj “, he explained on TV at the time that the 2nd Caliph Omar called the Persian and Roman soldiers Ulooj meaning mercenaries . He said further that during the Crusades , the Crusaders were also called , Ulooj meaning Zebras that stinks and added this name fits the Americans in both cases .Funnily enough he disappeared immediately after the press conference from the hotel . It appeared later that he went to the Americans who interviewed him , then released him and put him on a plane to Dubai . Perhaps they did not know what he was calling theme before , or they were magnanimous or he told them a lie about what Ulooj means which they found very pleasant !!!.Al- Sahhaf died in 2018 of good old age .
He was famous in Iraq and throughout the Arab world during the war for calling the American soldiers “ Ulooj “, he explained on TV at the time that the 2nd Caliph Omar called the Persian and Roman soldiers Ulooj meaning mercenaries . He said further that during the Crusades , the Crusaders were also called , Ulooj meaning Zebras that stinks and added this name fits the Americans in both cases .Funnily enough he disappeared immediately after the press conference from the hotel . It appeared later that he went to the Americans who interviewed him , then released him and put him on a plane to Dubai . Perhaps they did not know what he was calling theme before , or they were magnanimous or he told them a lie about what Ulooj means which they found very pleasant !!!.Al- Sahhaf died in 2018 of good old age .
