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.
Saddam feared sharing a laundry line could make him vulnerable to AIDS and other diseases.
"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.
Saddam wrote thousands of pages while in U.S.-supervised custody.
He wrote how hard it was to have to ask for things, saying it was a serious sacrifice from him to ask for things for the first time in his life.
Saddam was captured by American soldiers on Dec. 13, 2003, just over eight months after his regime was toppled by a U.S.-led invasion. An Iraqi tribunal convicted him of crimes against humanity and he was hanged at the end of 2006.
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