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.