Posted on 05/05/2008 12:33:33 PM PDT by RDTF
CAIRO, Egypt — Former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein feared catching AIDS or some other venereal disease during his U.S.-supervised captivity, according to excerpts of his prison writings published in a leading Arab newspaper Monday.
The London-based pan-Arab daily Al-Hayat published excerpts of what it described as Saddam's prison dairies which it said its correspondent obtained from U.S. authorities.
The U.S. military confirmed that pages of Saddam's writings have been released.
When the former Iraqi leader found out that his U.S. military guards were also using his laundry line to dry clothes, he wrote that he demanded they stop.
"I explained to them that they are young and they could have young people's diseases," Saddam wrote. "My main concern was to not catch a venereal disease, an HIV disease, in this place." He said that some of the soldiers ignored his request.
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Saddam should have taken some comfort from the certain knowledge that, even if he did catch something, that’s not what was going to kill him.
If Lynndie England had been his guard, it might have been a fact.
Saddam was afraid of contracting AIDS from sharing a clothes line? That’s more than interesting...
EEWWWW......:)
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