Captured general grilled by British

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.

Group Capt Al Lockwood, a British spokesman, said the general was captured in the besieged city of Basra the highest-ranking Iraqi prisoner of war thus far.

"We'll be asking him quite politely if he's willing assist us to continue our operations against the paramilitary forces in Basra," Lockwood said.