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Saddam was model prisoner, says nurse Posted: Tuesday, January 2, 2007 Saddam Hussein was mostly an uncomplaining prisoner who saved crumbs to feed the birds, watered weeds in the jail compound and believed that cigars were good for his health, according to a military nurse who cared for him in US custody. Master Sergeant Robert Ellis told an American newspaper he had checked Saddam's health twice a day, with orders to do whatever was needed to keep him alive. "That was my job: to keep him alive and healthy, so they could kill him at a later date," he said in an interview with the St Louis Post-Dispatch published on Sunday. Saddam maintained that cigars and coffee kept his blood pressure down. The remedy seemed to work, Sgt Ellis said, and he insisted on the nurse smoking with him. Full Article : guardian.co.uk |
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