Czech doctors said to have been ordered to perform surgery on the late dictator Saddam Hussein

On Thursday, the Czech weekly Sedmička published an article claiming that doctors from Prague in the late seventies were supposed to perform surgery on the late Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. The information is based on documents that the magazine’s staff says it has at its disposal. At the time, political relations between Iraq and then Czechoslovakia were very good and the Iraqi government asked the Czech authorities for help with Mr. Hussein’s health issues in 1977. The late dictator was then suffering from strong pain resulting from a slipped disk.