Walkabout Saddam was double, say Saudi newspaper

A Saudi newspaper claimed today that it was not Saddam Hussein who made the filmed walkabout in Baghdad on Friday but a double.

Al-Watan identified the double as Ahmed Hadushi, brother of Saddam’s trusted Major Jabar al-Hadushi.

It quoted an Iraqi secret service informant as saying Ahmed Hadushi had undergone plastic surgery several times to increase his similarity to Saddam.

The newspaper showed a picture of Hadushi alongside one of the real Saddam, indicating from the appearance of Hadushi’s left eyebrow that he was not the Iraqi leader.