Latif Yahia

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Latif Yahia, 2009

Latif Yahia (also Latif Yahya) (born June 14, 1964 ) is a former officer in the Republican Guard of Iraq and allegedly served as a doppelganger of Udai Hussein , a son of Saddam Hussein , from 1987 to 1991 . According to his statements, he had gained deep insights into the inner workings of the dictatorship of Saddam Hussein's Baath party ; his autobiography reports about it.

Life

After graduating from high school , Yahia studied law in Baghdad and served in 1987 in 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 made into a film under the title " The Devil's Double, " which was presented at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival .

criticism

Journalists Eoin Butler of the Irish Times and Ed Caesar of the Sunday Times question Yahia's credibility.

Butler interviewed Yahia in 2007 and found inconsistencies in Yahia's statements. In 2011, Butler interviewed numerous people who lived in Iraq during the Saddam Hussein regime. Two confidants of Saddam Hussein denied that he used doubles. Yahia is said to have imitated Udai to get to know women. A private guard at the presidential palace also denied that Udai used doubles. Saddam Hussein's former doctor and cosmetic surgeon at Ibn Sina Hospital denied that he had given Yahia cosmetic surgery, as he claimed. The doctor had often treated Udai and never saw a double. A former CIA - Agent in Iraq denied the credibility Yahias also.

literature

  • Latif Yahia, Karl Wendl: I was Saddam's son. As a doppelganger in the service of the Iraqi dictator Hussein. Goldmann, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-442-15249-6 ( Goldmann 15249).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ I was Saddam's son , Tagesspiegel
  2. ↑ The Devil's Double , in the IMDb
  3. ↑ a b Ed Caesar: The Double Dealer . In: The Sunday Times , January 23, 2011. Archived from the original on April 26, 2012. Retrieved January 14, 2012. 
  4. ↑ Eoin Butler: The Tangled Tale behind The Devil's Double . In: The Guardian , August 13, 2011. Retrieved January 14, 2012. 
personal data
SURNAME Yahia, Latif
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Yahya, Latif
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Iraqi military, officer, lookalike of Udai Hussein
DATE OF BIRTH June 14, 1964