Saddam's pumping gas? Iraqi motorists doing double take

Chicago Tribune ^ | 08/07/03 | Laurie Goering

[bedolido]

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 Mohammed Hussein Daoud, with his unmistakeable heavy jowls, bushy mustache and big dark sunglasses.

[Revolting cat!]

Do you know anything about this?

[Sloth]

Where's a pic?! *whines*

You'd think he'd shave the 'stache.

[tsmith130]

All of us around here have one grandfather...

Well THAT explains a lot!

[Sloth]

[WestPoint90]

And the picture would be????

[eastsider]

While Saddam enjoys a minuet,
The Ballet Russe, and crepe suzette,

Mohammed likes to rock and roll,
A hot dog makes him lose control,

What a wild duet!

[DittoJed2]

Looks like your typical arab.

[bedolido]

cuz they're cousins... identical cousins all the way...

[Sloth]

Yeah, I don't see any special resemblance.... though he's half covered-up anyhow.

[eastsider]

They laugh alike, they walk alike,
At times they even talk alike.
You can lose your mind,
When cousins are two of a kind!

[CanisMajor2002]

One of Saddam's 40someodd body doubles? :)

[Ronin]

Doesn't anyone remember the "purloined letter" method of hiding things?

Someone had better get a DNA sample from this gas-pumper just to be sure.

[YankeeinOkieville]

So, does anyone know what any of the others have been up to since the departure of Sad-man.

[norraad]

...but, does a" hotdog make him loose control?"

[Physicist]

Oh, now this could be a draw. "Saddam! If that isn't high-octane, a thousand camel spiders will feast upon your spleen!" "Hey, Saddam! I want this windshield clean, got it?" "Saddam, fetch me my change, on the double!!" All the while, the Saddam look-alike is bowing and scraping, "Yes, effendi, yes! A thousand pardons, noble sir! Right away, O Master!" With a well-practiced step-'n'-fetchit routine, this fellow could do quite well.

[Ruth A.]

Saddam would be crazy to leave Iraq. It is the best place to hide out in the open. No DNA necessary. A soldier would just have to spray something on his hand and proffer it. The real Saddam would go crazy. Remember how he would have people wash and disinfect before touching him, because he thought they might poison him through the skin. Ah, the downside of paranoia.