Saddam ends hunger strike after missing one meal - Yahoo! News

Saddam ends hunger strike after missing one meal - Yahoo! News:

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.

What is ironic about his pico-fast is that one of the things he is accused of doing is usurping the funds from the Oil for Food program to buy weapons and sock away some money for himself, rather than letting his countrymen eat - which was the stated purpose of the program.

Perhaps he has already fasted some to atone for that. Accounts in the news last year said he had lost a lot of weight since he was first went into hiding and later got captured.

Food seems to have become a bit of a motif in his career over the last decade.