Master of Disaster

Saddam Hussein


BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) - U.S. military officials said Monday they had arrested several resistance leaders in Baghdad based on documents found when Saddam Hussein was captured.

Officials said that some of the documents detailed a meeting of resistence cell leaders - and included their names.

Yet the deposed Iraqi leader who eluded coalition forces since the capital fell in March is replying to interrogators' questions with nationalist or patriotic rhetoric, military and other sources told CNN.

"For example, he was offered a glass of water, and Saddam said, 'Well, if I take that glass of water I will have to urinate, and if I have to urinate, I will have to go to the bathroom, and how can I possibly go to the bathroom when my people are enslaved?' " Time magazine correspondent Brian Bennett said.

A senior U.S. official said that in the first interrogation Sunday, the former Iraqi leader "was a wiseass," or in other words, that he gave only defiant and un...