In Dutch Doppelgänger as such is often used in literary analysis and literary criticism, e.g. het Doppelgänger-motief, while for doubles of Saddam, we'd use Dutch dubbelganger (which is a calque in itself of the German word, apparantly coined by Johann Paul Friedrich Richter in 1796).

Frank

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