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London: Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf, Iraq's Information Minister at the end of Saddam Hussein's regime, has been captured in Baghdad, a British newspaper claimed on June 25.

The 'Daily Mirror' said al-Sahaf – nicknamed "comical Ali" for his robust denials that Baghdad was falling to US troops – was snared in his car at a US military roadblock on June 23.

In a dispatch from Baghdad, it said al-Sahaf's captors allowed him to go back to a house where he had apparently been holed up with his wife and three children "to collect a toothbrush, razor and book".

"He has some serious talking to do... this time," the tabloid, which had strongly opposed the US-led war to oust Saddam, quoted a "senior coalition source" as saying.

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