At 12:12 PM 9/27/02, Jon Gabriel wrote:
Shades of Kiln people.... if the US Gov't actually does go in and kill
Hussein, what's to say they've actually killed the 'real' him?
Jon
GSV Duck Hunting in a Hall of Mirrors
From:
Reuters
BERLIN (Sept. 26) - A German television network said on Thursday it had
made a scientific study of 450 photographs of Saddam Hussein in Iraq and
concluded there are at least three doubles posing as the Iraqi president.
The ZDF public television network, working with a German coroner, said it
took the photographs and film clips of Saddam which it had in its archives
and used facial recognition technology to determine that men said to be
him were look-alikes.
"In the film sequences since 1998 only the doubles appear," said Dieter
Buhmann, a Homburg coroner. "He himself has not been seen again."
But in the program, ZDF said that the original Saddam reappeared on Iraq
television on Saturday. It also quoted what it said was a former Iraq
intelligence official describing how he had recruited doubles for Saddam.
"It was a practice started for security reasons because Saddam traveled a
lot at the time and had contact with the public," said the former
intelligence official, now living abroad in opposition.
ZDF said in the program, and on its Web site (www.heute.t-online.de), that
"a scientific investigation proved the 65-year-old ruler allows at least
three doubles to replace him at official appearances."
ZDF said it was difficult to tell which were the doubles and which was the
real Saddam Hussein. Minor details such as the size of the ears, hands and
shape of the shoulders gave the look-alikes away, ZDF said.
"They have apparently undergone surgery to appear to look like the
statesman," ZDF said. "The doubles have mastered Saddam's gestures and
perfectly mimic Saddam, with only tiny details separating them from the
real Saddam Hussein."
09/26/02 18:21 ET
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I never dreamed that I would see the last.
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