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Nature 419, 421 (3 October 2002) | doi:10.1038/419421a
Saddam gives viewers double vision
Quirin Schiermeier
Rumours that the Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein uses doubles have been endorsed by a German face-recognition expert, who says he has evidence that television pictures of Saddam are really of his doppelgängers.Commissioned by the German public TV network ZDF, Dieter Buhmann, a forensic scientist at Saarland University in Homburg, analysed 450 photographs of Saddam from the ZDF's archives and found significant deviations.
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