Latif Yahia

Latif Yahia (also Latif Yahya ) ( born June 14, 1964) is a former officer in the Republican Guard of Iraq and served from 1987 to 1991 allegedly as a doppelganger Uday Hussein, son of Saddam Hussein. He had to get to his specifications, a deep insight into the inner workings of the dictatorship of Saddam Hussein's Baath Party; his autobiography reported.

Life

After high school, Yahia studied law in Baghdad and served in 1987 with the rank of first lieutenant in the First Gulf War. After the Second Gulf War in 1991 he fled to Austria. He published the autobiography I was Saddam's son, which was under the title " The Devil's Double ", which was presented at the Sundance Film Festival 2011, filmed.

Criticism

The journalists Eoin Butler of the Irish Times and Ed Caesar of The Sunday Times cast doubt on the credibility Yahias.

Butler interviewed Yahia 2007 and found inconsistencies of the statements Yahias. 2011 Butler interviewed numerous people who have lived during the Saddam Hussein regime in Iraq. Two confidante of Saddam Hussein denied that this doubles 've used. Yahia to have Udai imitated to meet women. A private guard the presidential palace denied also that Udai Doubles would have used. Saddam Hussein's former physician and cosmetic surgeon at the Ibn Sina hospital denied that he had undergone plastic surgery Yahia, as asserted this. The doctor had Udai often treated and never seen a double. A former CIA agent in Iraq challenged the credibility Yahias also.