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Saddam ends hunger strike after missing one meal
Reuters ^
| 6/23
| Reuters News
Posted on 06/23/2006 7:35:55 PM PDT by JingoJim
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Saddam Hussein ended a brief hunger strike after missing just one meal in his U.S.-run prison, a U.S. military spokesman said Friday. The former Iraqi leader had refused lunch Thursday in protest at the killing of one of his lawyers by gunmen, but the spokesman said he ate his evening meal.
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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: amazingdiscipline; hunger; hussein; iraq; manofsteelwill; prisonersaddam; saddam; strike; thenextdavidblaine
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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Saddam Hussein ended a brief hunger strike after missing just one meal in his U.S.-run prison, a U.S. military spokesman said Friday. The former Iraqi leader had refused lunch Thursday 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 Wednesday.
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posted on
06/23/2006 7:35:58 PM PDT
by
JingoJim
To: JingoJim
I think we should declare him dead of starvation and bury him.
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posted on
06/23/2006 7:36:42 PM PDT
by
Texasforever
(I have neither been there nor done that.)
To: JingoJim
The former Iraqi leader had refused lunch Thursday in protest at the killing of one of his lawyers by gunmen, but the spokesman said he ate his evening meal.That says so much, on so many different levels...
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posted on
06/23/2006 7:37:33 PM PDT
by
sourcery
(A libertarian is a conservative who has been mugged ...by his own government)
To: sourcery
It sure does, doesn't it? That was my thought exactly.
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posted on
06/23/2006 7:38:37 PM PDT
by
Torie
To: JingoJim
To: JingoJim
What a jerk.
I hope he has a nice, full belly when the rope snaps tight around his loathsome neck, and he doesn't stop dropping 'till he gets to one of the lower places in Hell.
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posted on
06/23/2006 7:40:32 PM PDT
by
M1911A1
To: JingoJim
Wonder if this means Cindy Sheehan is ending her hunger strike as well?
To: JingoJim
it's nothing a plunger and a piece of ham wouldn't take care of
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posted on
06/23/2006 7:42:08 PM PDT
by
InvisibleChurch
(No.... wire .... hangers!)
To: JingoJim
More proof that every utterance from these asinine and cowardly Arabs is nothing but pure, bombastic nonsense.
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posted on
06/23/2006 7:42:16 PM PDT
by
Mad_Tom_Rackham
(Memo to GOP: Don't ask me for any more money until you secure our Southern border.)
To: JingoJim
Anybody think it might have been BBQ pork for lunch??/sarc
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posted on
06/23/2006 7:42:43 PM PDT
by
Lokibob
(Spelling and typos are copyrighted. Please do not use.)
To: JingoJim
Ohhhhh, the inhumanity of it all!! And no bedtime snack either.
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posted on
06/23/2006 7:43:35 PM PDT
by
JingoJim
To: sourcery
LOL...too typical. That old Saddamn is a survivor NO matter who else bites the dust as long it ain't him.
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posted on
06/23/2006 7:46:17 PM PDT
by
shield
(A wise man's heart is at his RIGHT hand; but a fool's heart at his LEFT. Ecc. 10:2)
To: JingoJim
Is it me? Or has Saddam been having his hair touched up?
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posted on
06/23/2006 7:46:55 PM PDT
by
Calpernia
(Breederville.com)
To: InvisibleChurch
ROFL! Yeah, he should definitely be force fed, for his own
good. LOL!
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posted on
06/23/2006 7:46:59 PM PDT
by
Mad_Tom_Rackham
(Memo to GOP: Don't ask me for any more money until you secure our Southern border.)
To: JingoJim
LOL.
Now there is a guy with a LOT of self control.
To: Texasforever
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posted on
06/23/2006 7:48:24 PM PDT
by
Boiler Plate
(Mom always said why be difficult, when with just a little more effort you can be impossible.)
To: BunnySlippers
My kinda hunger strike.I was on a hunger strike as well, then dinner time rolled around.
To: JingoJim
That's about how long my diets work.
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posted on
06/23/2006 7:51:22 PM PDT
by
processing please hold
(If you can't stand behind our military, stand in front of them.)
To: JingoJim
Does anyone think he had his lawyer whacked?
To: BunnySlippers
Ya, me too. Only I usually make up for it in the following meal... and then some.
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posted on
06/23/2006 7:53:00 PM PDT
by
dhs12345
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