At 3:06 PM -0400 4/11/03, Pete Capelli wrote:
Actually, he had held other positions in the government before he was information minister. I assume it is those past roles which singled him out for this list.
He was a foreign minister who blew it, and was demoted to his, um, former current job. He earned his Baath party bones, way back when, ratting out his brother-in-law, an Iraqi general, to assassins back in the 60's. Here's hoping he's currently residing in a crater somewhere... Cheers, RAH -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: rah@ibuc.com> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'