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Why did God make me look like this guy?

I am really good looking.

He's the most hated person in Iraq.

I get assassination attempt week after week.

I went through hell.

Hell! Hell, I mean it, hell.

If I fell, I'm dead. And my family is gone with me.

This evil guy.

He's a lunatic. I don't laugh like that.

You fucking mean!

He destroyed my life.

Enough is enough.

Shoot him!

I can't take anymore.

We like the army.

Get down!

The war is not a fun place to go.

You see the death every day.

I don't know why we was in the war.

Why we was fighting?

For what?

I was the oldest son.

Two sisters, three brothers.

And we have a nice life.

I went to my general and he said, what did you do? Look at this letter.

The logo, the eagle.

That's me, Saddam Hussein, the president.

He asked me to come to the palace.

I was in shock.

What did I do?

and stopped outside of Halas.

I was nervous.

This eldest son of President Saddam Hussein entered the room.

This is Odeid Hussein.

Odeid Hussein is hated by the nation.

For his behavior, how he raping, kidnapping, killing people.

How they say to me, Welcome.

How are you, my friend?

We look like each other.

Anybody see us, they say brothers.

Same blood.

Anybody can see it.

He look at me in a strange way and he say, Do you know why you are here?

What do you think to be Saddam's son?

I say we are all Saddam's sons.

I mean for you to really be the son of Saddam Hussein.

I want you to be Uday.

I want you to be my Fiday.

You be my fiday.

Fiday in Arabic language is body double, bullet catcher.

Why the God make me look like this guy?

Oday, he's the most hated person in Iraq.

I accept this job, I get in a bullet.

You're dead.

Do I have a choice, sir?

Yes, you do have a choice, Latte.

I say, we live in a free country.

I say, this is very nice of you, sir.

But I cannot do this job.

I'm not an actor. I don't know how I do it.

He just went to his desk.

He can't refuse.

The cell was nearly one meter by one meter.

No window.

Everything painted red.

I close my eyes. Still I can see the red.

You don't hear anything outside except screaming.

I don't know what time is it, day or night.

I was praying, please, God, you know, help me, take me out of here. I didn't

anything.

It was seven days of hell.

Hell, I mean it, hell, you know.

My cell opened.

And I saw others in front of me.

They said, now, are you accepting what I give you?

Or I bring your sister here.

This means he raped my sister.

There's no choice.

I accepted.

Okay, what next?

I was just waiting for surprises.

A guy come to me and say, my name is Mona Mohammed.

I got to be your trainer.

Everything is expensive.

silk in the top of the bed, big mirror everywhere, TV.

Best clothes, best jewelry, best of the best of everything.

What do you think then?

It's yours now.

I just look and I say, wow.

This is my present.

This is...

When I wake, I want to call my mom.

I miss all my family.

I know they'll be worried.

Why can't I make a phone call?

Forget your life.

From now on, you will not exist.

Your family believe you are dead in the war and you are a martyr.

From now on, you be Uday.

Two persons come in.

They see my height, weight.

Skin color.

Two hours, they're checking everything.

From my toe to my head.

They didn't explain anything to me.

There's trouble coming.

They bring me to the dentist.

They start working. They don't talk. Nothing.

They start drilling, cutting, drilling, cutting.

They found the teeth was different.

His front teeth was pushed to the front.

Two days later, when I see my full face, I just look at myself and I say, that's

not me.

When Oday come in, he laugh.

I start really be worried.

I am so gorgeous.

He's a lunatic.

I am really good looker.

I look at him, I don't know what I say to him.

Monham say, now, today, the first day of training.

They put the first tape, watching Odey, how he walking, and how he

smoke, how he drink, his driving, everything.

And they say, I want you repeat what you see.

Show me how he move his hand.

I did it, he say, no, this way.

Show me how he smoke. I say, I don't smoke. He say, show me how he smoke.

No, no, no, no, no. He carry the cigar like very slow motion.

I just blow it like.

Now show me how he talk.

I am Uday. No, no, no, no, no. Not this way.

I Uday.

No, no, no. This way.

He love to carry his gun always with him.

He put it in his finger and he keep doing it like the cowboys.

I keep repeating.

Over and over.

Every single day.

Three, four weeks like that.

Keep acting, you know.

When I'm saying to me, I want you to be dressed the best suit you have here.

What's going to be next, I don't know.

We're going to meet the president.

Holy God, I'm really shocked.

Big test to be proved by the president, Saddam Hussein.

We went to the presidential palace.

There's no noise.

I was terrified.

If I fail in the test, what's going to happen?

Prison for life or dead.

President Saddam, he just put his head up like that.

And here I start really be worried.

Saddam Hussein, he make you terrified.

I felt what happened.

I was shaken.

Then I say, very good.

Allah gave you two sons. You are the third.

Thank you, sir.

He turned to me.

One thing I tell you.

Never, ever make me angry.

A week later, when I'm saved, you get on the first job.

You get to do appeals in Iraqi football stadium.

I said, what do I got to do there?

He given medals.

That's it.

Are they coming?

With a big iron bar.

What I'm saying?

I am a footballer. How you give me the medals?

No, no, no, no, no. Slow motion.

Or they don't move fast like you.

I'm stressed.

Or they he was sitting and watching.

I have nerves.

I did some mistake.

I laughed.

Okay.

Why you laugh like that?

I don't laugh like that.

From two second laughing and joking.

You look and you sound like a whore! A little pig

of a whore!

Get me a good iron bar over my body.

Don't mock me!

You laugh!

Here I saw the reality of my day.

I mock you!

I get an order to go to the football stadium.

If I don't pass, this is what's going to happen.

I was worried, afraid 100 % I'm going to collapse.

When I say, this is your test, Latif, don't fall.

If you fall the first one, forget about the rest.

The football match is finished.

There's no question anymore.

That's it.

I turn like an actor.

This is what keeps me going.

I am an actor.

Damn, what a day.

Everyone started shouting.

A lot of people were there.

Everything is done perfectly, I hope.

About one hour later, a day coming.

If I fail, I don't cost me my life only. My family is going with me.

I watched everything.

And I'm silent and I can't talk. I didn't take my eyes from monitor two

I was watching you.

Great job.

Everyone is convinced.

Ha, ha, ha.

Lots of idiots. They believed it.

I passed it.

I've been a body double 11 months.

I've been ordered to go in a hotel.

to celebrate with the army the finishing of the war.

One of the biggest hotel in Baghdad.

Go out.

Everything normal.

I took couple of step up.

My shoulder just moved.

The first bullet I get, I'm dead.

The bodyguard

starts fire.

It's like a war zone again.

They were shaken, and now this is the first time I've been injured by a

My security, they pulled me out.

They're holding me. You okay, sir? You okay, sir?

Come on, sir.

Do it now, sir.

Get up! Get up!

This is the first what's going to happen next.

I don't want to die

The

picture of my

family never went out of my head

I ask how they just please let me see my family again.

This is once in my life I say some humanity inside him.

Only this one.

He say, half an hour.

Okay, thank you.

Thank you so much.

I want like a racket.

Thank God.

Everyone just shocked.

I know you're not dead.

My mother just crying, crying, crying, crying. I know you're not dead.

But I know you are not dead.

I'm okay.

I'm fine. I'm fine.

Thank God you are here.

Please don't tell anybody.

Because we all be dead.

In this regime, you don't go alone.

All your family is gone with you.

And half an hour went like a second.

At least my family is safe.

But if I do something wrong,

they

say, we go for holiday.

It's a beautiful place, but they start changing, start be worse.

You see this evil guy, he don't care about anything.

He thought this couple, they just get married.

How dare he just give his signal to bring her to his suite.

This is my wife!

This is my wife!

I said to her, please, would you leave her?

She is just a mother.

This is my wife!

It's horrible.

No, no, please.

This is my wife.

This is my wife.

You follow.

No.

No, bring her back.

No.

My wife.

He raped the bride.

I was smoking. I was lighting cigarette from the other, one from each other.

I was so angry.

The woman, she opened the window.

She threw herself from fourth floor.

This make me sick, make me angry.

As not only this girl, this happened to her.

I start hate this guy every single day.

A man carried by two strong men of Odey come into the office.

And the man complained, Odey, he raped his doctor and murdered her.

You can feel the hurt in his face.

And Odey, he say, he is the scum. He complained about me.

The man, from his anger, he spot another.

Odey took his gun.

Then he threw the gun to me.

I said, I'm not shooting anybody.

I am ordering you to shoot him!

I don't want to kill anybody.

Enough is enough.

I took the knife.

I make it easier for you.

Straight away I cut my wrist off.

You are a maniac.

I took the gun and shot the man straight away to the head.

I don't care anything about my life. I want

just to finish.

This is the end.

Wake up.

Wake up.

Wake up.

Hey.

I called myself a coward because if there was some human being inside

me, I'd kill this man.

I don't let him continue raping and killing.

I feel guilty. I feel sorry. I didn't do it.

I don't have a future.

There was a hope inside me. One day I got to reunite with my family.

This is what kept me going.

When the bombs started falling over Iraq, Odeh went to Switzerland, leave

to save himself.

The messenger coming, he said, tomorrow.

They put you on the TV, the location, the border to Kuwait.

This is very dangerous.

Just a second, I'll stop.

I hear this attack.

I saw people coming from this side and this side.

All over the place.

My security beside me.

Straight away dead.

Hit my hand, my finger.

I get in my head, I get in my shoulder.

I start losing the control.

I saw the death this time.

I say, Allah, Jesus, Mary, God, help me.

First time I feel really afraid from death.

Saddam Hussein ordered me to come straight away to Baghdad.

And he looked at me.

Well done.

Great job.

And he started laughing.

You know, I leave my table with my chief.

Just so that I can come back here and be with you, Latif.

He was doing roulette, and I'm dying for him.

Tell me, what is the... Sir.

The doctor said to Odey, sir, I think we got to lose his little finger.

And Odey straight away come crazy, take his gun and put it on the head of the

doctor. If he lose his little finger, that mean I lose my little finger.

That mean I put bullet inside your head.

You thought it out.

I want to sleep, and I never wake till all day dead.

I'm tired of to look at this face.

I was seeing the gate, I see Baghdad.

I would love to get out of this cage, even as a golden cage.

I was living in hell.

The life starts again to the normal for all day.

The partying started.

The kidnapping started.

The rape started all over the place again.

Thinking just, how get out of here?

This girl, Odey, picked her one of his girls.

She asked me to go with her. I said, you know our order, we don't go with Odey

girls.

She said, nobody go tonight.

I said, I'm not coming with you.

I was sleeping in my bed.

Two or four dead men coming after all they want to.

Can I at least change first? No, we take you where you are. Come on, man. Let's

go. Is something wrong here?

How they was in the office?

What you do with this girl?

And I said, nothing.

Well, it ain't nothing. I tell you the truth.

And all they said? I send you to be a little bit happy.

This word, when he use, this mean a torture.

I went through hell.

21 days, day and night like that.

They called all day, they say, if you don't take him out, he's dead.

He look at me like that.

I say, Now you're unhappy?

And I just look at him.

One of his men get a razor from somewhere.

Everyone have a limit.

Now come on.

You should go to your family.

They threw me to the door like a dog.

They start crying.

With all the pain I have in my body, I can't walk.

When I say that's it, I can't take anymore.

I was very close to my mom.

Go.

Save your life.

Get out of here.

Get out of here.

We will all go. We must all go.

My father, he say, I am Iraqi.

I was born here.

I am dying here.

Maybe they kill you, dad.

He say to me, Allah made me in Iraq and Allah take me in Iraq.

My little sister, she was nine.

She said to me, go, have your freedom.

Nothing going to happen.

We will be okay.

I picked that as a sign from Allah, this angel telling me to go be safe.

My escape offer, I got to be planned.

I have a gun.

Always with me in the car.

I'm not going for a holiday.

I have to move far.

I'm ready to go.

Hello.

They called me.

They invited me.

to this party.

This is Odeh, typical Odeh.

I want to escape, but I can't say no.

It's like a big nightclub and bar.

Odeh, come on.

I saw something wrong.

He walked with an iron bar.

Anything in front of him, he hit.

He don't know what he do with himself.

I was seeing the anger on his face.

I'm coming.

He kicked me.

What's going to happen? I'll be tortured again. Maybe I'll be shot.

It is coming.

My chance is coming.

I didn't choose it. It just came by accident.

I heard all they screaming, Latif, Latif, wait.

He was

clicking the button.

I can hear his voice.

Latif, Latif, Latif.

One bullet coming straight away to my right shoulder.

I just took my gun and I start shooting back.

They start chasing me.

Prophet Muhammad, he wake again and ask me to stay in Iraq. I'm not staying.

I've been driving like 20 minutes.

I know I'm heading to a checkpoint.

If I pass this checkpoint, this means I'm safe.

I just was praying.

I remember Joanne, my sister.

I said, please God, if you love this angel, let me go through.

My freedom was through the checkpoint.

I get this idea.

Just one time, this space helped me.

I sit like Odey, how he drive in the car.

And I put the steering in one hand.

I was sitting like Odey when I was bleeding.

The guards look at me like that.

If this officer wasn't convinced I am Odey Hossein, he don't let me go.

I be tortured till last minute of my life.

How they get to sit and have a fun and enjoyment of my torture till I die.

He recognized my face. He thought it's Odey.

I'm gone, like a racket.

This face brings me my freedom.

My father, he paid a heavy price, and I'm proud of him,

and I know he's in heaven.

Thank God my mom, she's safe, and sisters and brother.

This is my story.

You're making your choice.

I'm not telling you to believe me.

I'm not telling you don't believe me.

What I went through, I don't like. Even my enemy got through.

I was in a cage and I held and I escaped.

There's nothing better in the world like your freedom.

Freedom means no more Odey.

It's the best medication in the world.