THE one-time "Butcher of Baghdad" likes corn chips, ping-pong and Ronald Reagan, and dreams of making a comeback in Iraq, even though he is reduced to washing his own underpants in his prison sink, his US prison guards have revealed.
Five returned Pennsylvania National Guardsmen who supervised Saddam Hussein in jail say the accused war criminal writes poetry, chats about women and sometimes dances alone in his cell.
He gets Cuban cigars in Red Cross packages from his daughters in Jordan and shares them with his captors. He once told them a joke about three men and a sheep. He asked for a ping-pong table but was refused. He insists he never had any relationship with Osama bin Laden.
Convinced he is still president, Saddam invited the soldiers to visit Iraq once he is acquitted and back in power, they told GQ magazine.
"I'll show you all around my country. You are like sons to me," he said, adding: "It's not beautiful now, but it will be when I'm back in charge."
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