WASHINGTON (AP)&045; First, find out whether Saddam Hussein knows of any impending guerrilla attacks planned against U.S. troops or Iraqis.

Then ask where Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri and other remaining senior regime officials and insurgent leaders are hiding. Get Saddam to paint a picture of the resistance &045; if he knows much about it, which some U.S. officials doubt.

Down the road, when his interrogators have perhaps established a rapport with him, or perhaps even broken his will to resist questions, try to answer the many unresolved questions about Iraq’s efforts to develop chemical, biological and nuclear weapons and ties to terrorists.

U.S. intelligence and military officials laid out these priorities Sunday for their interrogation of the ousted Iraqi president, believed to be under way already.

During the arrest of Saddam, U.S. troops discovered &uot;descriptive written material of significant value,&uot; one U.S. commander in Iraq told The Associated Press on condition of anonymity.

He declined to say whether the material related to the anti-coalition resistance.

Although Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, the top U.S. military commander in Iraq, described Saddam as talkative and cooperative, other officials shied away from suggesting that he has provided any useful intelligence in the hours since his capture.

&uot;He has not been cooperative in terms of talking or anything like that,&uot; Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld told CBS’ &uot;60 Minutes.&uot;

Another official, speaking on condition of anonymity, described Saddam’s demeanor as sullen, not overtly defiant but sarcastic.