| Certain incidents such as the murder of Kamel Hannah at a party, which is depicted in the film stand out, but the book sometimes feels like a catalogue of horrendous crimes, and often makes for harrowing reading | This was an amazing non-fiction book about a man recruited i |
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| Yahia served as Uday's double for approximately five years 1987-1991 before the government of Sadam Hussein released him, after torturing and imprisoning him | In a later passage Yahia reproaches himself for never gunning Uday down when he had the chance saying, "Just one pull of the trigger would have been enough |
When I learned that he was the man I had read about years before--the one who was forced into being a "body double" for Saddam Hussein's evil oldest son, Uday--I was intrigued enough to read the book he had written about his ghastly experiences.
8| And the Hussein family had plenty of enemies | |
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| As you might know, political leaders have often been targets of assassination, and in Iraq there's an institution called fidal, which means "body double | Latif's tale has been questioned by some but the majority of it seems legitimate the international community knew certain things at Perhaps Uday was worse than Saddam |
At other points, the deviant behaviour of Uday, his family and henchmen is so extravagant and disturbing as to be virtually beyond belief.