Latif Yahia (Arabic: لطيف يحيى, romanized: Laṭīf Yaḥīa, Kurdish: لەتیف یەحیا; born 14 June 1964[1]) is an Iraqi blogger, political writer, and former Captain that served in the Iran–Iraq War.

At the age of 23, he was summoned from the frontlines to the presidential palace, where he discovered that Uday remembered that classmates had remarked on the resemblance between the two when they were in school together.

[2] Irish Times journalist Eoin Butler and Sunday Times journalist Ed Caesar have questioned Yahia's various claims, including that he was Uday Hussein's body double, and pointed out that many of Yahia's activities since leaving Iraq in 1992, including his education, have not been verified.

[5][6] In 2011, Caesar interviewed various people from the time of the Hussein regime who said they had never heard of Yahia, nor of Uday ever using doubles.

[9] The movie The Devil's Double, directed by Lee Tamahori and starring Dominic Cooper as Yahia and Uday, premiered at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival on 22 January 2011.