Saddam Hussein

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Iraqis doubt real Hussein behind bars


By MARK MacKINNON
From Thursday's Globe and Mail

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Baghdad — Jassim Abu Ahmed almost spits his disgust at the television set showing yet another image of the dazed and bedraggled Saddam Hussein.

"It's not him," Mr. Ahmed says, waving his hand and looking away from the screen. "Everybody knows it's not him. Why do they keep showing this?"

While Iraq's new leaders are planning for what they have dubbed "the trial of the century" and claiming a great victory over the Baathist remnants that are still fighting the U.S.-led occupation, many Iraqis remain deeply skeptical that the former dictator has been caught.

In a country where the press was always controlled by the state, and that is now occupied by a foreign power, people have learned not to trust what they see or hear in the media.

And after watching television news reports during the war that talked of Iraqi military victories — even as U.S. troops were entering Baghdad — many now believe they're still being fed lies. A fuel tanker that exploded in Baghdad Wednesday, killing 10, was first reported as another suicide bombing — then downgraded by U.S. military officials to a mere accident, further adding to the disbelief surrounding Mr. Hussein's arrest.

Some even saw the report of an eyewitness who has seen Mr. Hussein as part of the grand plan, disbelieving it when Mowaffak al-Rubaie, a member of the U.S.-appointed Iraqi Governing Council who was among the handful of people who have visited the ex-dictator since his weekend arrest, went on television Wednesday to announce that Mr. Hussein was "still in greater Baghdad" and would remain in the capital until his trial.

Mr. Ahmed, an athlete who knew Mr. Hussein's oldest son Uday personally, says he is positive the person the United States is parading as their prize catch is not the former dictator. Mr. Hussein is known to have a tiny tattoo on his left hand, but in the relentlessly replayed video that shows him having his throat checked by a U.S. Army medic — the video that most of the world accepts as footage of the humbled former dictator — the markings are not apparent as Mr. Hussein strokes his straggly beard.

It's not the only detail that disbelievers have seized on. Others find it strange that Mr. Hussein's hair is black in the footage, but his beard is white.

"Everyone knows that Saddam dyes his hair, but after eight months hiding in a hole, it's still black?" asked Diaa, a 37-year-old taxi driver who gave only his first name. "Tell me how this is possible. When they captured [former information minister Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf] after a few weeks, his hair was already white."

Some, like Mr. Ahmed, believe the ex-dictator's dead sons are also alive, and that the whole family has struck a deal with U.S. President George W. Bush to live abroad in secret exile.

The rumours have also allowed those who have been fighting in Mr. Hussein's name to draw continued inspiration.

Rumours that the man captured was a look-alike sparked celebratory riots this week in the Sunni Muslim town of Fallujah.

"It is someone wearing a Saddam mask," 25-year-old tire repairman Waleed Ibrahim told Associated Press in Fallujah yesterday. "It is a trick to help President Bush get re-elected."

U.S. armoured vehicles rolled down the town's main street, blaring messages to the contrary.

"The coalition forces have arrested Saddam Hussein. Reports that it is a Saddam double are false," a voice declared in Arabic from a loudspeaker. "The old regime will never come back. This is the end of the Baath Party."

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www.simedia.org/new/pr/SI-P-R-april-03.html#war

Questions from Share International magazine, answered by Benjamin Creme’s Master, a Senior member of the Spiritual Hierarchy, through Benjamin Creme

War with Iraq

Q. A recent newspaper article showing close-up photos of Saddam Hussein and one of this doubles pointed up the physical differences although the likeness was remarkably good. The article claimed that Saddam Hussein might already be dead, possibly killed in early bombing. Is this true?
A. Yes. It is my information that Saddam Hussein was badly injured in the bombing of Baghdad on 20 March and died subsequently from his injuries. The man seen recently on Iraqi television is therefore (and I think obviously so) a “look-alike” acting the part of Saddam.

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John McWethy, Brian Ross, Pierre Thomas and Martha Raddatz, Saddam Hit?, ABC News, March 21, 2003, web.archive.org/web/20030324225555/http://abcnews.go.com/sections/world/World/iraq_saddam_030321.html



Eyewitnesses saw the Iraqi leader being taken from the complex on a "gurney, with an oxygen mask over his face" Thursday morning (Wednesday night U.S. time), the officials told ABCNEWS...

Yet within hours of the predawn bombardment, Saddam appeared on Iraqi television, condemning the U.S. attacks and calling on his people to defend the country in a jihad, or holy war, against its enemies.

A debate soon began: was it really Saddam making the speech, or one of the body doubles he is reputed to use as a security measure?

The man at the podium wore glasses, and looked puffy, old and tired, unlike the Iraqi leader's robust appearance three days earlier.

The White House said today it does appear to be Saddam in the videotape, but press secretary Fleischer said there's no way to know when it was really recorded.

U.S. officials concluded it was Saddam after conducting voice analysis of the speech and using computer algorithms to compare the speaker's face with known images of Saddam. They also studied a second video purporting to show the Iraqi leader meeting with members of his Cabinet in the hours after the attack.

CIA officials said the man who gave the speech was the real Saddam, without his contacts, without his make-up, and without a good night's sleep.

Dieter Buhmann, a German pathologist who has meticulously studied hundreds of photographs of the Iraqi leader's public appearances, said he agreed with the CIA's conclusion. He said he was almost certain that the man who appeared on Iraqi TV was Saddam.

Buhmann, of Homberg University, had earlier measured and mapped Saddam's mustache and eyebrows, and concluded that he uses at least three different doubles.

Ex-Mistress Says It Was a Double

But there was a different assessment from a woman who claims to have known the Iraqi leader intimately. Parisoula Lampsos, who says she was Saddam's mistress over a period of nearly 30 years, told U.S. officials and ABCNEWS that the man who appeared on TV was not Saddam.

Lampsos had previously distinguished Saddam from his doubles in more than a dozen cases and she said that Saddam would never come out of the bunker during battle to deliver a statement.

Last year Lampsos explained to ABCNEWS' Claire Shipman how she could spot Saddam's doubles.

For starters, she said, the real Saddam has an unusual tattoo: two dots on his left hand that he received in prison years ago. But his eyes are the real giveaway, she said.

"Look everywhere — it might change," Lampsos told ABCNEWS. "You can change your teeth, everywhere. But the eyes, no."

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Text of Interview with John Loftus

MSNBC, July 25, 2003

www.john-loftus.com/msnbc_072503.asp [no longer available here]

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OLBERMANN: Do you read into the selling out of Uday and Qusay and now about these bodyguards that we are getting close to finding Saddam Hussein dead or alive?

LOFTUS: Well the story down here is that we're not even looking for Saddam Hussein because military intelligence is so convinced that he was killed on March 20. We had an observer that saw his body being dug out of the rubble, carted off and half an hour later we had a British wiretap intercept of an Iraqi doctor calling for a Russian doctor to help because a senior member of the regime is seriously hurt and his heart has stopped. So no one's seen or heard from Saddam since March 20, you know, and gee, I kind of thing the guy would have at least held up a newspaper at some point, you know, with the date on it so people would know he was still alive.

OLBERMANN: Why hasn't the government said anything about this, then?

LOFTUS: Well, you know the joke of the Pentagon is that they're not going to say Saddam is dead until they have concrete evidence; they want to haul his body out of the concrete. The problem is that the last thing that we heard about Saddam was some Russian doctor was treated him, there's some suspicion now, he might be buried at the Russian Embassy. So, nobody has the body, so nobody's confirming it. But everyone in -- that I've talked to in Centcom and Special Operations Command are so certain that he's dead that they're not even bothering to look. The "New York Times" was flatly wrong; Task Force 20 hasn't even been hunting for Saddam Hussein. They've been working on their weapons of mass destruction recovery project. No one's looking for him down here.

OLBERMANN: If he's dead and as you've often said on your radio program, if there are really weapons of mass destruction still on the ground, in or around Iraq -- why are more of the troops not yet home?

LOFTUS: Well, I think that you have a very serious guerrilla war going on and it's being funded by Iran. Iran is paying a bounty to out of work Ba'ath thugs and Fedayeen mercenaries and for every American soldier you kill, you get a bounty. I mean, it's profitable work for them. So, Iran is making sure the war stays hot.

OLBERMANN: This apparent rush to fink out the sons and the bodyguards, in this week -- does that signal that if Saddam Hussein is dead that the news is about to come out and people are trying to make deals, if you will before the window closes?

LOFTUS: Well, there's a lot of deals being made. My favorite one is "Abu Tiba" (PH), which I'm told means "father of rumor," and he was the alleged bodyguard that sold an exclusive to the "Times of London," saying, "Oh, yeah. I was with Saddam afterwards." And, a wonderful story about how the family survived, and it's kind of all fiction. We know that many of the videotapes that were shown during the war were prerecorded and one of them, for example, Saddam is walking by a building that was blown up on the first day of the war.

OLBERMANN: Oops.

LOFTUS: You know? And all of these guys are body doubles. Some of them are funny. This one body double, the cubby one, he's three inches shorter than Saddam and about 30 pounds heavier.

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Iraqi Resistance Stiffens Amidst Claims Saddam's Capture was a Hoax

by
Ernesto Cienfuegos
La Voz de Aztlan

Los Angeles, Alta California - December 16, 2003 - (ACN) Hundreds of pro-Saddam rallies erupted today throughout occupied Iraq amidst widespread claims by Iraqis that US forces actually captured one of Saddam's many known doubles. US forces have killed 16 Iraqis during separate incidents as demonstrations in support of Saddam Hussein erupted across the occupied country. US occupation forces shot dead 11 Iraqis in the western Iraqi city of Samarra and returned fire in response to further attacks in the city, about 45 miles north of Baghdad. Military sources added that another five Iraqis were shot dead in Falluja and Ramadi today. Witnesses said hundreds of residents protesting the Saddam capture hoax overran the office of the US-appointed mayor in Falluja.

Also, a US patrol north of Falluja was attacked by roadside bombs and rocket-propelled grenades. Soldiers returned fire, killing two Iraqis, said the military, however, independent Arabic media reports said those killed were demonstrators.

In addition, about 500 protesters gathered in Ramadi and Iraqi fighters apparently fired at US forces in the city, wounding one soldier. Occupation forces then killed two of the attackers and wounded two others. In a separate incident, 30 Iraqi fighters opened fired at a patrol. US soldiers fired back, killing one of them.

In Saddam's hometown of Tikrit, about 700 people demonstrated against the hoax today, chanting "Saddam is in our hearts, Saddam is in our blood." Also, one protester was said to have been killed in Tikrit in clashes that broke out between baton-wielding occupation forces and students, reported independent Arab media sources.

In addition, in the northern city of Mosul, one policeman was killed and another seriously wounded in a drive-by shooting after a demonstration by 1000 students protesting against the "Saddam capture" hoax. An Iraqi policeman said four members of the Site Protection Force (SPF) were wounded by stones hurled by protesters. The violence erupted after police fired warning shots to disperse the demonstration.

And in the northern city of Kirkuk, US occupation soldiers shot and killed one Iraqi overnight as he was walking in the street. A second was seriously wounded when a US convoy opened fire near a petrol station, said the Iraqi (USA) police.

In related news, one US soldier died when a convoy was struck by a roadside bomb north of Baghdad, said US military sources. Three more US soldiers were injured, two seriously, in an explosion in Saddam's hometown of Tikrit, about 160km north of Baghdad, they said.

Meanwhile, extreme doubts have arisen throughout Islam that the released pictures by US occupation forces of the "captured Saddam" are of the Iraqi leader. Thousands of Iraqis, who knew Saddam, are claiming that it is one of Saddam's many known "doubles". Saddam Hussein's oldest daughter told Al-Arabiya television network her family doubts the pictures are that of her father. In a phone interview, Raghad Hussein, 35, told the Arabic-language channel, "This is not our father"! She added, "This is not how he would act." Raghad Hussein has been granted political asylum by Jordan.

Other Arabs and Muslims throughout the world expressed similar claims. Muslims as far away as Sri Lanka expressed their doubts that the real Saddam Hussein has been captured. Abu Haniffa, the president of the Sri Lanka Traders' Association said, "Some of our people think the pictures could be part of a US ploy or Saddam's own strategy to create a double and flee attempts to capture him."

It has been known for years, by both the Iraqi people and intelligence agencies, that Saddam Hussein utilized at least 5 doubles to hide his whereabouts during his rule of Iraq. George Bush and US occupation forces, themselves, were "fooled" when they thought that they had "bombed" and killed Saddam Hussein in March of this year. After a massive missile attack and bombing of a building where Saddam Hussein was, according to US intelligence sources located, George Bush claimed the Iraqi leader was blown up. A few days later the Qatar based Aljazeera news service broadcast a video showing Saddam alive and well. This incident totally fooled and embarrassed the Bush Administration.

Falih Abdul Jabbar, a sociologist and researcher at London University in England, says the Iraqi public had long known Saddam employed look-alikes. He says the public had become adept at detecting which Saddam -- the real one or a stand-in -- came to official ceremonies.

Falih Abdul Jabbar said, "People noticed that when the other guy, or 'the second Saddam,' was there, they could detect this very easily by looking at the bodyguards, who seemed careless, sometimes even laughing. They wouldn't do that in the presence of the real Saddam."

He continued, "Another observation by the public was that Saddam was very well-known among the Iraqis to be a camera-monger. He loved the camera and to be in close-up shots. And they notice that when the other guy, his 'spare part,' was his replacemnet, the cameras would take faraway shots, rather than zoom in. They would then deduce this was not the real Saddam."

In an effort to learn more about Saddam's use of doubles, the German public television station ZDF asked a forensic specialist to make a scientific study of some 30 films of the Iraqi leader. The expert, Dieter Buhmann of the Institute of Forensic Medicine at Saarland University in Homburg/Saar, found that the pictures reveal there are as many as three Saddam doubles who regularly took Saddam's place.

Buhmann says he found the doubles by looking for pairs of pictures in which Saddam's pose was essentially the same. Using a computer graphic program, the scientist marked each picture to highlight such features as the length and width of the head, the size of the eyelids and nostrils, and the forms of the ears and chin. By then overlaying the two pictures, he was able to calculate how closely the features matched, indicating whether the person in the pictures was the same man or not.

La Voz de Aztlan has conducted an independent analysis of the many pictures of the real Saddam, his doubles, and of the one that US occupation forces say is that of the captured Iraqi leader. We invite you to see and conclude for yourselves whether the American public, and that of the world, is being scammed by the "mother of all hoaxes". See for yourselves and believe your own eyes! The analysis is below :

Analysis of Saddam Hussein's Real Pictures, his Doubles
and that of the Supposedly Captured Iraqi Leader





The above is the US occupation forces' just released photograph of who they claim is Saddam Hussein. Notice four "tell tale" details that raise serious questions concerning who this man really is. First, notice the dark birthmark just above and to the left of this man's left eye and especially its position and size. Secondly, notice his right side of his hairline. Thirdly, notice the shape of his chin. Furthly notice the size and shape of his left eye. Now compare these details to two pictures of the real Saddam below:


Do you believe these are the same men??? Now look at the three photographs of known Saddam Hussein's doubles below. The first Saddam Hussein even "fooled" Kofi Annan of the United Nations but look at this Saddam's refined nose and compare it to "bulbouse nose" of the captured Iraqi alleged to be the Saddam Hussein.

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This is not Saddam - 07/07/2004 11:54

The man the Americans are parading is not the real Saddam Hussein

When a liar is clever and careful, he is convincing because he is plausible and covers all his tracks. However, the longer the lie is spun out, the more clues are left. The Bush regime has been neither clever, nor careful nor plausible in its disastrous foreign policy, which culminates in parading a "Saddam" before the cameras who is certainly not the real Saddam Hussein, ex-President of Iraq.

The first attempts at justifying the illegal act of butchery called the Second Gulf War started in December 2002 when documents were forged by British and American intelligence operationals, trying to create a link between Niger and Baghdad, which was supposed to be buying yellowcake uranium for its "active nuclear programme". In the event, Mohammed El Baradei, the Director of the International Atomic Energy Agency, saw the scam when the papers were presented to him. He said the letterhead was wrong, the names were wrong and the signatures were wrong. Those who showed the papers to him maintained a sullen and embarrassed silence and the issue was forgotten.

Suddenly, Washington stopped talking about Baghdad's "active nuclear programme" and concentrated instead on its Weapons of Mass Destruction and its chemical and biological warfare programme.

"Magnificent intelligence" was presented by Colin Powell at the UN Security Council, complete with maquettes and satellite photographs of "mobile chemical facilities". Soon afterwards, when the international UNMOVIC teams were unable to find the WMD, the Bush administration declared that "we know where they are".

So the act of butchery was launched. In the event, no weapons of mass destruction were found, nor even the production facilities and certainly no active nuclear programme. However, since nobody has spoken about these lies for a year, public opinion has forgotten them.

Next was the story of the murder of Saddam Hussein's sons, Ouday and Qusay, who were mysteriously together (when common sense would tell them to split up) with another man and a boy in a farmstead in the middle of a plain west of Baghdad. The story went as follows: hundreds of troops and a fleet of helicopter gunships finally killed the four after several hours of fighting.

This story sounded like the child trying to justify the fact that he had forgotten his homework, claiming that the dog ate it, the house caught fire and that someone stole his school bag on the way into the classroom. The photographs were not shown to the public immediately and when they did appear, Iraqis across the country shook their heads in disbelief, claiming that these were not Saddam's sons.

Then came the pictures of the hitherto clean-shaven, articulate, educated and proud Saddam Hussein, crawling out of a hole, disheveled, bearded and dirty, supposedly in December but with the date trees laden with mature fruits, which only takes place in August in that part of the world. Another strange occurrence.

The supposed Saddam was shown by an unconvincing Paul Bremer who declared "Ladies and Gentlemen, (pause) we got him!" The pause was telling, an unsaid "I am going to tell a lie". When the ex-President of Iraq's wife was taken to Qatar to see him, she burst out laughing and immediately said that this

was not her husband. Had the Americans fallen for their own trap, or were a small group of Americans fooling the others?

Curiously, the Saddam shown by the Americans has a long beard after capture and continues to wear an unruly beard now, whereas Saddam Hussein the president was always clean-shaven and with a moustache. Why the beard now? To hide the fact that he is not the real Saddam? To hide the jaw line?

Now, the Holy Grail is offered by Joe Vialls, who sent his article "Shaddam Shaddam's new Vaudeville Scam" to Pravda.Ru this morning. In this piece he points out that all photographers were banned from photographing "Saddam" in court for security reasons but then the CNN arrived in the person of

Christiane Amanpour, who immediately started shooting hundreds of metres of video footage, which was then transformed into stills.

Here was the mistake. As Mr. Vialls points out, the real Saddam Hussein had a fine set of teeth, completely even, in which the upper jaw closed over the lower (overbite). The figure paraded in court, as it is easy to see, has highly irregular lower teeth and a condition called "underbite", when the lower teeth close in front of the upper.

Touche. Dental records cannot lie. The set of teeth of the President of Iraq and the set of teeth of the man paraded before the cameras pretending to be Saddam Hussein are wholly and totally different.

The man they have in court is not the real Saddam Hussein. Yet another lie by this Bush administration is exposed. How much lower can this clique of criminals sink?

Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey
Pravda.Ru
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Strike on Iraq: Interview With Graham Fuller

Aired March 20, 2003 - 17:52 ET

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WOLF BLITZER, CNN ANCHOR: Iraqi television presented what it said was a message from the president, Saddam Hussein. There's some speculation that the man who appeared on television was, perhaps, an impostor designed to look as Saddam Hussein.
We are joined by Graham Fuller, who's a former vice chairman of the National Intelligence Council at the CIA. Graham, we are showing these live pictures of Baghdad as we speak. But what do you make of that speculation that perhaps that wasn't really Saddam Hussein after all?

GRAHAM FULLER, FMR. VICE CHMN., MATL. INTEL. CCOUNCIL, CIA: Well, it's a very fascinating possibility. If Saddam was taken out last night -- nobody knows whether he was or not -- then, obviously, the Iraqi regime would want to reassure the public by giving the impression that Saddam and other people around him were alive.

On the other hand, if Iraqis have a great deal -- a greater familiarity with Saddam Hussein and his voice and style than we do, So if there was any indication to the public that this actually wasn't Saddam Hussein, what kind of a message does that send? Is the message for Washington or is it for the folks back home?

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Iraq - President Saddam Hussein al-Tikriti

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In 1984, one of his stand-ins was assassinated by the Shiite Dawas (see "Marsh Arabs [the Ma'dan] and the Shiite Dawn Party"). His current body double is Faoas al-Emari, a man who has a hard time getting an insurance policy.

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Is it Really Hussein?
in: War
Does It Matter? asks Heather Wokusch


Now that the Evil Prince of Iraqi Darkness has been captured by valiant US military forces, the Middle East is free to democratize and the world at large is a much safer place. As Bush put it, Hussein's capture means "sovereignty" for Iraq, "dignity for ... every Iraqi citizen, the opportunity for a better life. All Iraqis can now come together and reject violence."



Any problems with this rosy assessment? Maybe my bullsh*t detectors go into overdrive every time the Bush administration announces a success, but this latest scenario just doesn't stack up.



For one, how do we know that the dusty old guy dragged out of the ground really is Saddam? Hussein was known to have had multiple "doubles," exact lookalikes who, for security reasons, took his place in meeting foreign dignitaries and in mingling with the public. Could the famous prisoner just be a double? A stooge set up to take the heat while Hussein lives lavishly-ever-after

in some other country?



DNA tests will apparently be conducted on the prisoner to prove he's Hussein, but it's unclear where the necessary comparative DNA samples will be obtained or how independent the verification process will be.



One could argue, of course, that the Bush administration would look pretty dumb later on if an impostor testified in court, so the prisoner must be Saddam. But face it: if Hussein ever does go on trial, how public will it be? Imagine the testimony:



"Well Your Honor, during the 80s I got all kinds of battlefield intelligence and weaponry from my buddies in the White House. Reagan and Poppy Bush gave me billions of dollars in credits for US agricultural products, so I could buy more weapons on the side, and a whole slew of stateside corporations sold me biological and other weaponry. Gassing Kurds, crushing Shiite uprisings ... no problem for my American friends! Wanna see a picture of me and Donald

Rumsfeld?"



Won't happen. We will not be hearing detailed depositions from Hussein, any more than we'll be seeing open trials for Guantanamo inmates.



But suspend doubt for a moment and assume the prisoner really is Hussein. Imagine he didn't escape with untold wealth to a mansion in Moscow, a villa in Naples, wherever, and really did end up moving from hovel to underground hovel in bombed-out Iraq. Then who revealed his location and what were the true circumstances of his capture?



The official version (brought to us by the same folks who presented Jessica Lynch as a Barbie action figure) is that superior US intelligence led Operation "Red Dawn" forces to their dusty prey. Little mention is made of the $25 million bounty on Hussein's head (namely if it was forked over, as was the $30 million for information on his two sons), but the fact that information was reportedly obtained "under duress" to discover his whereabouts would indicate harsh interrogation, if not torture, was used to find him.



The L.A. Times reported a US official saying, "Some people were impossible to find, but we'd find their relatives. One interrogation led to another raid, which led to another interrogation."



And then there's the matter of Hussein's spaced out, arguably drugged, appearance upon capture. Conspiracy theory has it he was actually being held prisoner, and the White House was just waiting for the most politically expedient time to "find" him. None other than Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright recently told a Fox news analyst she suspects Bush knows where Osama Bin Laden is too.



Bribery, mass raids/interrogations, political kidnappings? Who knows the truth behind this sordid affair, but it appears "sovereignty" and "dignity" for Iraqis were not the operating principles in capturing Hussein.



Bottom line: Prisoner Saddam is nothing more than a distraction, a prop used to bolster sagging White House ratings, much like the plastic turkey Bush offered troops in photo-ops last Thanksgiving. Hussein will be dangled every now and then (just in time for Christmas, next year's elections, Halliburton's latest accusation of corruption ...) and then locked away in a dungeon for life, or maybe even bumped off, "Jack Ruby" style.



Because surely the White House won't need him for long. The US will soon invade other countries way more evil, depose their dastardly leaders, and win more hearts, minds, respect and security in the process.

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May 2007
Anis El-Dighidy
Anis El-Dighidy believes that the execution of Saddam Hussein was a fabrication — and has written the book to prove it. Over 350,000 book buyers have been willing to give his story a chance.
By Yasmeen El Mallah

Depending on whose figures you want to believe, most sources (from journalists to Western and Arab intelligence agencies) agree that Saddam Hussein has look-alikes — up to 13 of them, in fact. Three of them —the most-often used — are known by name: Hatem El-A’aly, Fawzy El-Emary and Mikhail Ramadan, with the latter being the most well-known of the three.

According to El-Dighidy, the former Iraqi dictator wasn’t even captured.

“The person they caught was not Hussein. There’s no way a former dictator and president of a country would allow himself to be mocked the way he was the day he was caught. The Hussein that was caught was like a mouse; he was scared, and didn’t even try to defend himself,” says the writer, who claims to have studied 7,890 photos of Hussein including 120 videos of his speeches and interviews before writing his book.

El-Dighidy — who also argues that it was Hussein’s sons Uday and Qusay’s doubles who were killed in their place — borrowed from the findings of Iranian scholar Mohamed Ismail, who spent 25 years studying only Hussein’s ears. Ismail came to the conclusion that Hussein’s ears started to change from 1989, which is when his look-alikes went out at public occasions instead of him. According to Ismail, there are three things that no two people on earth have alike: ears, voices or fingerprints.


Another clear-cut distinction between Hussein and the look-alike who was used to illustrate the supposed execution of Hussein, explains El-Dighidy, is a mole on the right side of the face. The video of the execution that was broadcast around the world showed clearly that there was a mole exactly where Hussein does not have one.

When asked to explain why the look-alike didn’t yell out, scream or confess that he really isn’t Hussein to be spared, El-Dighidy retorts, “The look-alike sold his identity, personality and character years ago when he agreed to be Hussein’s look-alike. When the Americans caught him in the hole that he was in, they had two options, either to kill him then and there and say that they killed ‘Hussein’ [since it didn’t matter to the Americans who he really was] or to give him an offer. The offer was that he be given the glory of continuing to be Hussein and go through trial, then a ‘fake’ execution [after which] he would be let go.”

By “fake” execution El-Dighidy means that the American forces took an official video of Hussein standing with the noose around his neck, after which they yelled out “Cut! That’s a wrap!”

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"Saddam lookalike attacked by gang who tried to kidnap him and force him to impersonate the dictator in porn film"

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"The amazing true story of the military interrogator who orchestrated Saddam Hussein's capture by breaking the rules that is being turned into a Hollywood movie

The amazing story of how a struggling army recruit emerged to play a key role in tracking down Saddam Hussein reads like a Hollywood movie script and that’s exactly what Eric Maddox’s life story is soon to become.

As a military interrogator in the Iraqi backwater of Tikrit, Maddox was forced to develop his own methods of getting information from the locals after the techniques he’d learned in the army failed miserably.

But by going against what the military had taught him, Maddox secured the ultimate success and got the information which lead U.S. troops to capture Hussein in December 2003.

It was all a very long way from Maddox’s inauspicious starts as a struggling new recruit some ten years before.

After graduating from the University of Oklahoma in 1994, Maddox claims that a voice from God told him to become an Army Airborne Ranger, even though he'd never shot a gun and was terrified of heights.

‘Every day of Ranger School, I was like, “are you sure?” I barely passed,’ Maddox recently recalled to News9.

Next he decided to become an army interrogator after someone convinced him that it would be an easy ride.

Maddox said, ‘They told me, “be an interrogator. That's the easiest one. It's eight weeks of training. You'll never have to do it. We don't have any prisoners.'"

But then came the events of September 11, 2001 and everything changed. U.S. forces invaded Iraq in March 2003 and Maddox was sent to Tikrit, Hussein's hometown, to interrogate prisoners who were captured on raids by special forces teams.

Maddox admits he failed miserably when he first started.

'The really scary part was when I realized not only had I not done an interrogation,' said Maddox, 'But when I started doing them, they didn't work.'

Fortunately, Tikrit was considered a backwater and so he was left to develop his own technique.

'It was the best thing that happened to me because there were no expectations,' Maddox said. 'I could figure out how to get the prisoners to talk without torturing them.'

Maddox soon discovered that he his technique also worked. He had a natural ability for taking tiny bits of information from hundreds of prisoners and being able to piece it together to reveal the bigger picture.

'I went to the team leader and made a pitch, "I know this sounds crazy, but I think I have a path that if we follow might possibly lead us to black list number one (Saddam),'" he said.

Rather than focusing on high profile targets, Maddox spoke with bodyguards, chauffeurs and shopkeepers and slowly more of the bigger picture emerged.

Then just as he was due to leave for Doha, Qatar, Maddox finally came face-to-face with his number one target - one of Saddam's bodyguards

With only two hours to convince the bodyguard to talk before he had to leave for the airport, Maddox told him to 'beat on his cell' if he decided to change his mind and talk.

'As I'm driving to the airplane to leave the country, they told me, 'that prisoner. What did you do? He's going crazy, beating the heck out of his cell in there.'"

Maddox got the prisoner to sketch a map detailing Saddam's location which lead to his historic capture.

'It took me several years to come to the conclusion I wasn't going to wake up from a dream,' said Maddox.

He now lives in Houston and continues to work for the Department of Defense.

A couple of years ago he wrote a book that a movie studio immediately bought the rights to.

'Mission: Blacklist' is currently in pre-production now Robert Pattinson set to play Maddox. It is expected to be released next year."

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