# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/muhammad-saeed-al-sahhaf
# Generated: 2026-08-15T01:01:10.412Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/muhammad-saeed-al-sahhaf"
name: "Muhammad Saeed al-Sahhaf"
slug: "muhammad-saeed-al-sahhaf"
description: "Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf is an Iraqi former diplomat and politician. He served as Iraq's minister of foreign affairs from 1992 to 2001 and later became the Iraqi minister of information. Al-Sahhaf came to worldwide prominence during the 2003 invasion of Iraq when he acted as a spokesman for Saddam Hussein's government. He has been nicknamed Baghdad Bob and Comical Ali due to his colorful and blatantly inaccurate media pronouncements."
tagline: "Iraqi diplomatic politician and Information Minister"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Al-Sahhaf_Speech_OnIraqSatChannel_2003.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1940-07-30"
deathDate: "2021-03-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           54.83
  momentum:             0.4833625218914187
  historical:           22.29045866666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump