Showing posts with label Iraq. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Iraq. Show all posts

Sunday, August 7, 2011

Uday Hussein: "The Devil’s Double"

"Playboy, murderer, and sadist extraordinaire, Saddam’s elder son left no shortage of people with horror stories to tell in his wake. Yet for Latif, the trauma of his encounter with him was uniquely personal, one that still haunts him every time he looks in the mirror. For back in 1987, after noticing his striking likeness to Saddam’s son, Iraq’s secret service picked him to be Uday’s “fiday”, or body double, a job that involved becoming the living, breathing copy of the nation’s greatest hate figure."

by Colin Freeman's review in The Telegraph

see Saddam's demon seed


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Thursday, May 26, 2011

FPS - First Person Shooter - For Real

"In real, modern combat, in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, some soldiers have cameras attached to their helmets."

from Gizmodo

see This is Real War, Viewed from the Call of Duty Camera Angle

Link to the video in The New York Times featured in the Gizmodo article


Combat in the First Person: Haruti

Other YouTube videos can be found here




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