Iraqi Human Rights Minister Says Saddam Has Prostate Infection

[papau]

http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGB8V9B29XD.html


Iraqi Human Rights Minister Says Saddam Has Prostate Infection

By Rawya Rageh Associated Press Writer
Published: Jul 29, 2004

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Deposed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein suffers from a chronic prostate infection and has refused to have a biopsy to rule out any chance he has cancer, an Iraqi official said in an interview Thursday on Al-Jazeera television.
X-rays and blood tests carried out by U.S. military doctors did not show anything more serious than the infection and Saddam seemed to be in good health otherwise, Iraqi Human Rights Minister Bakhtiar Amin said.

He said blood tests came back negative for cancer, but officials wanted to take a biopsy to be safe.

Chronic prostate infections are common, occurring in about 35 percent of all men over 50, but are not linked to cancer. However, routine screening for prostate cancer, especially among older men, is becoming more common.

[LittleApple81]

1. Are they implying that he has his brain in his Prostate? They had

mentioned he had a stroke yesterday. I wonder what the preferred method of elimination will be.

[daleo]

2. Yesterday a stroke, today a prostate infection

A cynic might want to start a pool on how he will die in custody, without having the opportunity to give testimony.

[stopbush]

4. Yeah, we get it, already. He'll be dead by Xmas and we'll all be home

in time for cornflakes.

Too bad our vaunted intelligence agencies didn't get this info a year ago. We could have saved ourselves a war, 1000 dead yanks, tens of thousands of dead Iraqis and $200 billion if we had only waited for Saddam to remove himself.

Nice goin', Chimpy.

[MGKrebs]

3. Prostate infection is a known side effect

of the stroke inducing drugs the CIA uses.


/sarcasm?

[Zorra]

5. He is probably afraid to have a biopsy because Allawi the executioner

may perform it.