When insisting on the unbelievable is not a crime against humanity

By Terry Prone PEOPLE are a bit sheepish about missing the Iraqi Information Officer’s diatribes, but they do miss him.

Even if he represented a despicable despot, an intolerable regime and the losing side, he was hugely popular his TAM ratings went from nothing to the highest virtually overnight.

Muhammed Said al-Sahhaf was a virtual unknown a fortnight back. By the time the Americans entered Baghdad, he was as familiar a face as Brad Pitt and damn nearly as popular as George Clooney.