| After the two married, she heard for the first time that Yahia claimed to have been Uday's body double, which she found "dubious | One said that Yahia was arrested for impersonation of Uday in 1990, and the other corroborated the incident, also stating that Yahia pretended to be Uday to pick up women |
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| " After the 2007 interview, Yahia's ex-wife contacted Butler and told him that when she first met Yahia, he used a different name, Khalid al-Kubaisi | On 10 March 1997, Yahia allegedly threatened a refugee official in Norway, showing up at his office with a can of gasoline, pouring it out over the floor, and threatening to light it |
He was trained for six months to imitate Uday's speech patterns and manner.
30| Challenges to Yahia's claims [ ] journalist Eoin Butler and journalist Ed Caesar have questioned Yahia's various claims, including that he was Uday Hussein's body double, and pointed out that many of Yahia's activities since leaving Iraq in 1992, including his education, have not been verified | Although Saddam's purported use of body doubles was widely known, two confidantes of Uday Hussein denied that he used doubles |
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| At the age of 23, he was summoned from the frontlines to the , where he discovered that Uday remembered that classmates had remarked on the resemblance between the two when they were in school together | Biography [ ] Yahia was born to a wealthy merchant family of origin who settled in Baghdad |
| The official managed to "calm" Yahia, who fled after half an hour | The Black Hole released on 20 November 2006 by |
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| " Film [ ] The movie , directed by and starring as Yahia and Uday, premiered at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival on 22 January 2011 | Yahia was informed that he was to become Uday's fedai body double to make public appearances as Uday whenever a dangerous situation was expected |
Yahia, Latif 14 January 2012.