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		Ernesto Cienfuegos and La Voz de Aztlan 
		Seeing Double in Baghdad:  Saddam 
		Uses Look-Alikes to Disguise His Whereabouts, by Charles Recknagel, 
		Radio Free EuropeIraqis Doubt 
		Real Hussein Behind Bars, by Mark MacKinnon, Globe and Mail
 Saddam Hit?  U.S.:  Saddam 
		Seen Leaving Baghdad Complex on a Gurney After Strike, by ABC News
 More 
		Husseins Than Meet the Eye, by L.A. Times
 Will the Real Saddam Hussein 
		Please Step Down, by Tom Zeller, N.Y. Times
 Could Saddam Already Be in Hiding, 
		by Linda Mottram, ABC Local Radio
 
        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 replacement, 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.
 
 
  
			
 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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