Saddam ends hunger strike after missing one meal
BAGHDAD,
June
23:
Saddam
Hussein
ended
a
brief
hunger
strike
after
missing
just
one
meal
in
his
US-run
prison,
a
US
military
spokesman
said
today.
The former Iraqi leader had refused lunch yesterday in protest at the killing of one of his lawyers by gunmen, but the spokesman said he ate his evening meal.
Former Saddam aides being held in the same prison had refused to eat three meals since Wednesday evening but ended their fast with the ex-president.
''They all took their dinner meal,'' the spokesman told Reuters.
Saddam is on trial for crimes against humanity for his role in the 1982 killing of 148 Shi'ites in Dujail. His lead counsel, Khalil al-Dulaimi, has blamed pro-government Shi'ite militias for the murder of his deputy Khamis al-Obaidi on Wednesday.
REUTERS
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