Red Cross pays another visit to Saddam

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The international Red Cross has visited Saddam Hussein again to check on his condition in detention, a spokesman said Wednesday.

Muin Kassis, spokesman for the International Committee of the Red Cross in Amman, Jordan, said he was not immediately able to give details of the visit, the latest in a series that the ICRC has been making to the former Iraqi president since he was captured by U.S. forces last December.

The ICRC team, which usually includes a doctor, has been seeing Saddam every six to eight weeks in a prison in Iraq, where it also visits other "high-value detainees." The last confirmed visit by the organization was in early October.

The ICRC refuses to disclose details of his health or circumstances, but it has carried letters from him to his family.