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04/29/2003 Archived Entry: "US forces 'turn down Sahhaf's surrender overtures'"

ARREST ME YOU INFIDEL DOGS OR YOUR STOMACHS WILL BROIL IN HELL: My day, which included a snappy new linen sport jacket and a decent haircut, has improved immeasurably. Iraq's former information minister Mohammad Said al-Sahhaf is alive!

The Sydney Morning Herald reports that al-Sahhaf is hiding out at his aunt's house in Baghdad trying to negotiate his arrest by U.S. forces. The Americans are refusing because he isn't in the deck of their "most wanted" playing cards.

Murad said Sahhaf was in Mosul before going to Baghdad and that some PUK (Patriotic Union of Kurdistan) partisans saw him in the northern city and that he even asked some of them to intervene on his behalf with US troops, but "we told him that we didn't want to be party to this matter", the paper added.

The Kurdish official told the paper that US troops regularly patrolled near Sahhaf's hideout on Palestine Street in the Iraqi capital and that he sent some of his relatives to inform them of his wish to surrender, but they turned him down.

It's said to be bad for you in Hollywood if you can't get arrested, but what happens if your a formerly high profile member of a dictator's cabinet and you can't get arrested? Nothing short of humilating.