A GENERAL from Saddam Hussein’s army has been captured in southern Iraq and is being pressed to provide strategic information, British officers said yesterday.

Iraq’s vice president today threatened more suicide bombings against coalition troops, saying the suicide bomber who killed four US soldiers outside the Iraqi city of Najaf was a non-commissioned army officer.

A suicide bomber has killed five Americans in an attack north of the city of Najaf.

Fifteen Iraqis have surrendered to American forces on the Iraqi-Kuwaiti border today, a US Army officer said.