This is a self-published book, so there are a number of minor errors and inconsistencies eg sometimes it's 'fiday', other times it's 'fidai' - I'm not sure which is correct, and assume both are acceptable in English but there's nothing significant enough to actually spoil the reading experience | You go ahead - I'll catch up with you later |
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This book contains horrible scenes about torture that I wish I'd never read, as they are etched in my memory forever | So the book offers something quite different, in that its events unfold over a much longer period of time and cover a great deal of political wranglings and governmental corruption in addition to Uday's outlandish behaviour |
So there's no way of knowing whether everything or, indeed, anything contained within this book is genuinely true.
24This was an amazing non-fiction book about a man recruited i | Self preservation is a huge motivator |
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A very interesting read with an ending that you probably remember happening but didn't know what the cause of it was | For many Iraqis it would have been the highlight of t This book is now a major motion picture released with the same title in August 2011 |
As you might know, political leaders have often been targets of assassination, and in Iraq there's an institution called A CHILLING LIFE STORY! In 1987, Latif Yahia was taken to Saddam's headquarters to meet Uday, Saddam's eldest son, and told that a great honour had been bestowed upon.
7It is a truly bizarre story filled with incredible details | The books tells the real story of Uday Husseins fidday double |
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The systematic use of torture, the mass graves opposed to the vulgar exhibition of wealth and depravity of the Huss Unique tale that Yahia Latif's one, forced to become the double of Saddam Hussein's son | After a gruesome training programme during which he was made to watch over thirty films of torture, hours of tapes of Uday, and undertake a final remodelling of his appearance, Latif was deemed ready |