Saddam Hospitalized Amid Hunger Strike

Saddam hospitalized amid hunger strike
Prosecutors say ex-Iraqi leader being tube-fed after 17-day protest

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13996125/

7/23/2006

Saddam Hussein was hospitalized Sunday on the 17th day of a hunger strike, the chief prosecutor in his trial said.

Jaafar al-Moussawi said he visited the prison Sunday where Saddam and the seven other co-defendants are held and was told that the ex-president’s health “is unstable because of the hunger strike.”

“We took him to hospital and he is being currently fed by a tube,” al-Moussawi told The Associated Press. He refused to identify the hospital.

Asked if Saddam’s health had improved, al-Moussawi replied: “No, it is not stable yet.”