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List of Iraqi Information Ministers
This is a
list of
Iraqi Information
Ministers
during the presidency of
Saddam Hussein
. The ministry was
dissolved
in
May 2003
by L.
Paul Bremer
under
CPA Order Number 2
.
1979-1991
Latif Nussayif Jassim
- he held the post on
December 30
,
1990
, notable for saying that
President
George H. W. Bush "must have been drunk" to suggest that
Iraq
would withdraw from
Kuwait
, and that "We will
show the world
that America is a
paper tiger
."
1991-1996
Hamid Yusuf Hammadi
1996
Abd al-Ghani Abd al-Ghafur
1996-1997 Hamid Yusuf
Hammadi
1997-2001
Humam Abd al-Khaliq Abd al-Ghafur
2001-2003
Muhammad Saeed al-Sahhaf
, gained worldwide attention during the
2003 Invasion of Iraq
for claims like "the Americans were
committing suicide
by
the hundreds
at the city's gates."