Saddam has prostate infection

DEPOSED Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein is suffering from a chronic prostate infection and has refused to have a biopsy to rule out any chance he has cancer, an Iraqi official said yesterday.

X-rays and blood tests carried out by US 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.