SADDAM HUSSEIN may not be talking freely to his US interrogators but he has already provided information that led to the arrest of several top regime figures in Baghdad, a US general said yesterday.

A SUICIDE bomber driving a four-wheel drive taxi killed eight Iraqi policemen in an attack yesterday on a station in the capital’s northern outskirts, their commander said.

Saddam Hussein may not be talking freely to his American interrogators, but he has already provided information that led to the arrest of several top regime figures in Baghdad, a US general said today.

Saddam Hussein’s capture is already reaping dividends for the occupation forces, providing intelligence that led to the capture of several top regime figures, and uncovered rebel cells in the Baghdad, a US general said today.

US army helicopters in Iraq are now flying at low altitude, high speed and at varied routes following a series of bloody crashes, most of them due to hostile fire.

A US general said the one attacker captured in the bombings that killed over 40 people in Baghdad yesterday had a Syrian passport, fuelling suspicions that foreign fighters were behind a rising tide of violence.

Multiple car bombings have rocked Baghdad today, including a suicide attack on the Red Cross headquarters that killed at least 10 people.