So this Ted Kazcinkczi lookalike walks into a hole…

This post by Juan Cole is somehow more heartening to me than any amount of celebratory gunfire. When Iraq has its Onion, then we’ll have really succeeded.

Ash-Sharq al-Awsat says the following is making the rounds in Baghdad:

‘Muhammad Said al-Sahhaf, the former Information Ministry spokesman [known in the West as Baghdad Bob], was reached for comment about the arrest of Saddam. Al-Sahhaf denied that the US had captured the former Iraqi leader. “The man they arrested is Santa Claus,” he said.’

I guess you had to be there.