24 April 2003

The Iraqi Information Minister Well, if you've seen our Iraqi media news page today, you'll know that Mr Al-Sahaff is reported to be alive and well, and last reported to be inhabiting the ladies' room in the house of a hapless Iraqi civil servant living in one of the less salubrious areas of Baghdad. This cheered me up no end, as on Tuesday I got word that my Al-Sahaff 'Everything's Under Control' T-shirt has been shipped. I am still clinging to the faint hope that he will decide to confess everything in an exlusive interview with Radio Netherlands. BTW, the report also mentioned that he is believed to be keeping in touch with events by listening to the BBC World Service. I wonder if he's the kind of 'opinion former' Mark Byford says BBCWS is trying to reach :-) Perhaps by now he has accepted that there are, after all, US forces in Baghdad. 8:24:00 PM     comment on this entry []

In other words... I had to smile when I read a report from the Czech News Agency CTK, as re-published by BBC Monitoring. The spokesperson for RFE/RL in Prague is listed as Sonia Winterova. Her name is actually Sonia Winter - ova is the unstressed ending attached to all names of females in the Czech language. Maybe the CTK are using a trainee who has not yet learned that the intricacies of the Czech language don't necessarily apply in other tongues :-) And in case you're wondering, I did study some Czech at university more years ago than I'm prepared to admit here. 8:14:14 PM     comment on this entry []

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