Latif Yahia was born in 1964, the son of a wealthy Iraqi businessman. He attended the most exclusive school in Baghdad where another pupil was Uday Saddam Hussein, son of the future President. Everyone noticed the boys bore an uncanny resemblance to each other. Whilst Latif was a young army officer fighting in the Iran/Iraq war, he was summoned to a presidential palace and informed by Uday that he wanted Latif to become his 'fidai' or body-double.
After a spell of imprisonment and threats to his family, Latif was forced to agree. He underwent cosmetic surgery to look even more like Uday and was trained to act like him in every way. He survived eleven assassination attempts and was wounded nine times by bullets meant to assassinate Uday. When Uday also shot him in a fit of temper, Latif fled Iraq helped by the CIA. The CIA was grateful for Latif's insight into the regime and wanted him to be their spokesperson on Iraq. But, as his family was still in Iraq, Latif refused and moved to Austria where he hoped to live a peaceful life. To earn an income, Latif wrote the first version of The Devil's Double revealing his time as Uday's fidai. And exposing the darkest secrets of the Saddam regime to a shocked world. He has written three books serializing his life. 'The Devil's Double' on which the feature film is based, 'The Black Hole' which relates his time pressurized by the CIA and on the run through Europe and 'Forty Shades of Conspiracy' which tells of his years in Ireland and how he was continually victimized and denied Irish citizenship despite having an Irish wife and child. Today, Dr. Latif Yahia is now an international human rights lawyer, businessman and an outspoken Internet blogger commenting on developments in the Arab world, politics, justice and injustice.


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