http://www.sltrib.com/2003/Aug/08092003/nation_w/82617.aspSaddam look-alike gets noticed
AL OUJA, Iraq -- Saddam Hussein, dressed in a greasy blue jumpsuit, spends his afternoons pumping gas at this sleepy village's service station, just south of his hometown of Tikrit.
Or at least that's how it looks to visiting motorists who pull in for a fill-up and quickly do a double take at Muhammad Hussein Daoud, with his unmistakable heavy jowls, bushy mustache and big dark sunglasses.
"All of us around here have one grandfather," an ancestor nine generations back, "so it's inevitable," explains the 64-year-old Saddam look-alike. "My name is similar, and so is my face."
Similar doesn't begin to describe Daoud's resemblance to the missing dictator, a distant cousin who for a time attended the same grade school. Though Daoud was never recruited as one of Saddam's official stand-ins, he could be his double: Same paunch, same bushy salt-and-pepper eyebrows, same lined face and sagging cheeks. All he lacks is a rifle in his raised hand.
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