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Saddam feared catching AIDS from US troops

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Thursday, 08 May 2008

Saddam Hussein feared he would pick up sexual diseases, including AIDS, while he was in U.S. custody, according to extracts from prison writings published in an Arab newspaper. The ousted Iraqi dictator said he asked his prison guards not to put their washing on the same clothes line as his, fearing he could contract "young people's diseases," the London-based Al-Hayat newspaper reported, citing what have been labeled his prison diaries. "My main concern was to avoid contracting a sexual disease in a place like this, and AIDS," he said. "What can the Americans and other invaders... bring to an (invaded) country apart from dangerous diseases?" Al-Hayat said quoting Saddam. In his writings, Saddam also warned of the threat posed by neighboring Shiite Iran to Iraq and the Arab world, saying it was more dangerous than Israel. "The spread of the Persians... is more dangerous for Iraq than the Zionist entity, now and in the future," he said. "The Persians are similarly dangerous to the Arab nation, especially the Arab countries of the Gulf." Iraqi lawyer Khalil al-Dulaimi told AFP that Saddam took personal hygiene seriously and washed his own clothes in jail, adding however that the former dictator "never spoke to me about the disease (AIDS) or his fear" of it. "An eye for the ladies" In the 2007 book "The Terrorist Watch" by U.S. journalist Ronald Kessler, FBI interrogator George Piro was quoted as saying he supplied Saddam with baby wipes to clean his hands and food. Piro, who led Saddam's interrogation following his capture, also said the toppled president prayed five times a day in captivity, liked fine wine, Johnny Walker Blue Label scotch, Cuban cigars and had an eye for the ladies. "When an American nurse came to draw his blood, Saddam asked Piro to tell her in English that she was cute. Piro demurred," Kessler wrote. According to an American nurse assigned to Saddam during his detention, he was an avid reader who loved to write during his time behind bars. "He had a lot of stories that he had written. He had a pamphlet that he wrote in every day and then when time came to visit him he'd read things to me," Robert Ellis said following Saddam's hanging. One of Saddam's attorneys claimed after his execution that the U.S. military had confiscated the former Iraqi president's books as well as notes and poems he wrote in jail to screen them, and had promised to return them. Saddam was hanged on December 30, 2006, after an Iraqi court found him guilty of crimes against humanity for ordering the execution of 148 Shiites from the town of Dujail after an assassination attempt against him in 1982.

 

 

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