It's awful to be on the losing side in a war.

It's even more awful when nobody is interested in you afterwards.

Iraq's former information minister Mohammad Said al-Sahhaf, who denied to the end the presence of US forces in Baghdad, was turned down by US troops after trying to turn himself in, said the London-based Arab newspaper Asharq Al-Awsat, citing a Kurdish official.
Sahhaf had been at his aunt's house in Baghdad for the past four days and wanted US troops to arrest him so that "they can protect him" but they refused since he was not on their "most wanted" deck of playing cards, said the paper, citing Adel Murad of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK).

How embarrassing.

Surely someone wants to smuggle this guy to the US to get him a job on American TV. He could become a new cross between Joe Isuzu and Rodney Dangerfield.

He'd have at least one fan:

Even Sahhaf's "archenemy" US President George Bush said in a recent interview with NBC television that he enjoyed Sahhaf's briefings so much that he used to interrupt some of his meetings just to watch him.

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