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Saw effects of economic sanctions first-hand in Baghdad hospital
DUBLIN - Somewhat predictably, the low-profile Dr. Osama al-Sahaf, son of Iraq's wartime minister of information, has been dubbed Surgical Ali by reporters.
His ever-optimistic father, Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf, was a daily fixture of the war coverage from Baghdad and referred to as Comical Ali by the Americans for his verbal flights of hyperbole.
Dr. al-Sahaf has been in Ireland for the...