SADDAM HUSSEIN handsomely rewarded the army officer who targeted US forces in a suicide bombing, honouring him with a posthumous promotion, two new medals and a huge financial windfall for his family.

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.