Saddam 'has prostate problem'

Captured Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein is suffering from a chronic prostate infection but has refused a biopsy to rule out cancer, the country’s human rights minister says.

Tests show that despite the prostate problem, the 67-year-old deposed dictator is otherwise in good health and has even shed some extra weight while in US detention, human rights minister Bakhtiar Amin told Al-Jazeera television.