BAGHDAD - Saddam Hussein spent a ninth day without food on Sunday, the U.S. military said, continuing a hunger strike to demand better protection for defence lawyers after a third advocate was killed in Baghdad last month. “There’s no change,” said Lieutenant Colonel Keir-Kevin Curry, a spokesman for U.S. military detention operations in Iraq. “Despite their refusal to eat, they’re still deemed to be in good health.”The 69-year-old former president and three co-defendants, whose trial for crimes against humanity resumes in a week, have been refusing food since eating dinner on the evening of July 7, the military says. Saddam has been drinking sweet coffee and other liquids, Curry said.
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