Ummm......how are we gonna know we got the right one http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=586&u=/nm/20020926/wl_nm/iraq_saddam_double_dc&printer=1 German TV Network Says Saddam Has Three Doubles Thu Sep 26, 2:29 PM ET BERLIN (Reuters) - A German television network said on Thursday it had made a scientific study of 450 photographs of Saddam Hussein ( news - web sites) 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 lookalikes. "In the film sequences since 1998 only the doubles appear," said Dieter Buhmann, a Homburg coroner. "He himself has not been seen again." ZDF said in a news report and statement on its Web site ( www.heute.t-online.de) ahead of the broadcast of its findings later on Thursday that "a scientific investigation proved that 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. "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." ZDF also quoted a physician, Muslim Al-Asadi, whom it said has been studying lookalikes for years. "Between Saddam Hussein and another person who appeared in Iraqi television I was able to detect five different facial differences between the original and the double presented by Iraqi television," he was quoted telling ZDF.
