A scientific study of 450 photographs of him has concluded that the Iraqi President has used at least three body doubles to make public appearances on his behalf since 1998.The German television network ZDF, working with a German coroner, took archival photographs and film clips of the leader and used facial recognition technology to determine whether the men said to be him were look-alikes.“In the film sequences since 1998 only the doubles appear,“said Dieter Buhmann, a Hamburg coroner.“He himself has not been seen again.”“It was a practice started for security reasons because Saddam travelled a lot at the time and had contact with the public,“said the former intelligence official, now a member of the opposition living abroad.

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