Report: Saddam feared getting STDs from guards

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Report: Saddam feared getting STDs from guards
By Salah Nasrawi - The Associated Press
Posted : Monday May 5, 2008 19:53:09 EDT

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 diaries 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.


Rest of article at: http://www.armytimes.com/news/2008/05/ap_saddam_vd_050508/

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1. He was right to be careful

those diseases can kill ya!! As can laundry lines.

As far as I know, he remains clear of venereal diseases.