WHO remembers Muhammad Saeed Al-Sahhaf? Not ringing a bell, is it? Perhaps it would help if I called him Baghdad Bob or Comical Ali - ah yes, it’s all coming back to you now.

The infamous former Iraqi Information Minister helped to bring some levity to the otherwise dour and unpopular invasion of Iraq in 2003 with his public pronouncements on behalf of Saddam Hussein’s regime. You may recall such classics as the following: