Als doppelganger im dienst des irakischen diktators hussein. It vividly describes how latif was forced to become uday husseins fidai body. He told us, there are 100,000 men like him in iraq, ready to drive out the enemy. Latif yahia is an iraqiborn author and former combatant in the iraniraq war. The tangled tale behind the devils double eoin butler opinion. Uday sat in an armchair in front of a painting of an arab fighter brandishing a sword.
The book is a description of latifs five years 19871991 of compulsory fidaiship to one of the worlds most debauched, cruel, and childish human beings. In a chilling hour, we go inside the sadistic world inhabited by saddam hussein s sons and hear firsthand accounts of how each man inherited a different, deadly side of his father. Closeup portrait of uday hussein s body double latif yahia, london, gbr get premium, high resolution news photos at getty images. Dominic cooper gives a riveting dual performance in the devils double, but the movie is a relentless onenote drama that loses its momentum halfway through. The movie is 108 minutes long, and cooper is in about 170 minutes of it, playing both uday and body double latif yahia. According to his book, blog and media interviews, he was born into a. The first hand recounting of the atrocities committed by uday are far too numerous and mind boggling to be anything other than true. Youve got latif yahia on being uday husseins body double. The devils double released on 5 june 1994 by arrow books ltd. It vividly describes how latif was forced to become uday husseins fidai body double and gives a unique insight into the extreme extravagance and cruelty of. He told intelligence agents that he had lived a life of servitude as udays body double and had turned on his master when uday tried to kill him because a girlfriend had become overly. This was a very interesting book on the life of latif yahia, a body double to uday hussein, saddams son. The former body double of uday hussein recounts his harrowing experiences.
And one man was on hand to witness it all uday s unwilling body double. The tangled tale behind the devils double eoin butler. If you like graphic descriptions of torture, and the. Kindle edition verified purchase this was a very interesting book on the life of latif yahia, a body double to uday hussein, saddams son. He is best known for being the alleged former body doubl e of uday hussein, the son of iraqi dictator saddam hussei n. Uday had gone to the same private school in baghdad as latif and. Zwei vertraute saddam husseins bestritten, dass dieser doubles benutzt habe. I was shot 26 times for being uday husseins body double. Us releases photos of saddam sons world news the guardian.
As the double of saddam husseins son latif yahia, karl wendl on amazon. As an insider, yahia was eyewitness to the regimes brutality. Consequently the tale is deeply unsettling but at the same time gripping. Hussein s oldest son, uday hussein, may have used a body double as well. The former body double of saddam hussein s sadistic son, uday, is now living in of all places offaly. The devils double the shoes of a psychopath the new. Latif yahias account of his time serving as the dictators sons double would make. Its hard to conceive of too many narratives in which saddam hussein might emerge as a secondtier villain.
A movie based on yahias life, the devils double, opens in the u. As the double of saddam husseins son latif yahia, karl wendl on. But in the devils double he is portrayed as a man who at least operated. If you like graphic descriptions of torture, and the excesses of uday hussein, you will love this book. Two journalists have disputed this and other claims made by yahia. Author of hit hollywood film on horrific tale of uday. Latif, during his army service in the days of the iraniraq war, is recruited by uday to serve as his fidai body double on account of their remarkable shared likeness. Uday hussein was born around 1964 in tikrit to saddam hussein and sajida talfah while his father was in prison. Photographs of saddam hussein s feared sons laid out in plastic body bags were released by the us today in a bid to convince sceptical iraqis that neither would follow their father into power. Closeup portrait of uday husseins body double latif yahia. The devils double is the latest blockbuster to stretch the limits of the. The story tells the tragedy of latif who ends up as uday hussains body double.
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