Mosque Blast Kills Six Iraqis as British Source Says Saddam not Providing Information

09/01/2004| IslamWeb

A car rigged with explosives detonated outside a Shiite mosque as people streamed out of Friday prayers, killing six and wounding 37, according to medical officials in the central Iraqi town of Baqouba. Meanwhile, a senior British official said Friday Saddam Hussein has given no useful information to U.S. interrogators, but documents and papers found in his briefcase have yielded results "far greater than we expected." The official said U.S. authorities were taking their time interrogating the former Iraqi dictator, in the hope that he would feel more comfortable about talking in captivity. "The results from the capture of Saddam were greater than we were ever expecting," said the official, according to The AP. "He has not talked himself, but what came out of the papers found with him led to further information that led to further operations," said the official. The official added the chief U.S. administrator in Iraq, L. Paul Bremer, told Prime Minister Tony Blair in Basra last week that "Saddam is not offering information of an operationally useful kind. They (U.S. authorities) are taking their time, trying to get him to talk so that he can feel comfortable that he can talk in captivity." **PHOTO CAPTION*** People stand around a car destroyed in an explosion on a busy street Friday Jan. 9, 2004, in Baqouba, Iraq. (AP Photo/Samir Mizban)