Saddam's mania for cleanliness was also revealed in the 2007 book "The Terrorist Watch" by US journalist Ronald Kessler who quoted FBI interrogator George Piro as saying he supplied Saddam with baby wipes to clean his hands and food. 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. Pictures of Saddam published by a British tabloid in May 2005 showed the iron-fisted dictator in prison, bare-chested in only his underwear and washing his clothes by hand in a bucket. The most notorious Iraqi strongman of the late 20th century was sent to the gallows at the age of 69, three years after being captured by US troops who found him, long-haired, bearded and bedraggled, in a hole near his hometown of Tikrit. Saddam was hanged on December 30, 2006, after an Iraqi court found him guilty of crimes against humanity, specifically for ordering the execution of 148 Shiites from the town of Dujail after an assassination attempt against him in 1982. Dulaimi, who led Saddam's defence team, said the book will contain texts handwritten by Saddam and details from interviews he had with the former dictator while in prison. Iraqi lawyer Khalil al-Dulaimi told AFP on Tuesday that the first of a three-volume book on the former president's life from childhood to his execution will be published later this year. Some of the texts were published in the daily in the form of dated letters, or poems written by Saddam, a prolific writer known to have penned several books and poems in his lifetime. bring to an (invaded) country apart from dangerous diseases?" Al-Hayat quoted Saddam as writing, without specifying how it obtained the documents. "What can the Americans and other invaders.
"My main concern was to avoid contracting a sexual disease in a place like this, and AIDS," he said. Saddam said he asked his prison guards not to put their washing on the same clothes line as his, fearing he could catch "young people's diseases," the London-based Al-Hayat newspaper reported, citing his journal. Saddam Hussein, the ousted Iraqi dictator hanged in December 2006 for charges of crimes against humanity, feared he would contract sexual diseases while he was in US custody, according to extracts from prison writings published in an Arab-language newspaper.
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