Saddam Hussein

A community portal about Saddam Hussein with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Saddam Hussein Abd al-Majidida al-Tikriti, was the President of Iraq from July 16, 1979 until April 9, 2003, when he was deposed during the United States -led 2003 invasion of Iraq. As a leading member of the Iraqi Baath Party, which espoused secular pan-Arabism, economic modernization, and Arab socialism, Saddam played a key role in the 1968 coup that brought his party to long-term power.

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NEWSVINE: DIARIES SHOW SADDAM FEARED GETTING AIDS IN PRISON

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CAIRO — Saddam Hussein feared catching AIDS or other diseases during his U.S.-supervised captivity, a leading Arab newspaper said Monday in publishing excerpts of his prison writings.

http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2008/05/05/1470441-diaries-show-saddam-feared-getting-aids-in-prison

The London-based Al-Hayat said the comments came in portions of Saddam's prison diaries that it obtained from U.S. authorities. The U.S. military confirmed some of the late Iraqi leader's writings had been released.

When Saddam found out his U.S. military guards were also using his laundry line to dry clothes, he wrote that he demanded they stop, according to the excerpts.

"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 some soldiers ignored his request.

A U.S. military spokesman in Iraq, Maj. Matthew Morgan, declined to describe the writings as a formal diary, but said the former Iraqi president produced thousands of pages of writing while in custody.

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