This story may be just a piece of fluff floated by some faction or the other trying to promote their preferred version or to cast doubt on someone else's. But the British tabloid the Sunday Express is reporting on claims that Saddam Hussein was actually captured by a Kurdish group that then tipped off the Americans to his whereabouts.
Kurds claim Saddam capture Courier-Mail (Australia) 12/22/03
The original story is apparently not available online, at least not that I've found.
I don't know how solid the story is. But I've always thought it was somewhat improbable that Saddam would be caught with no bodyguards of any kind. By no means impossible, but odd.
Since I'm on the subject, to my surprise several antiwar Weblogs have linked to this story at Debka.com, a site which apparently gets information from Israeli intelligence sources and which promotes a rightwing-Likud-Party spin on events. It also claims that Saddam was being held captive, not hiding out.
I've seen some information posted at Debka which later turned out to be correct. But I've also seen others that didn't pan out at all. So I do not consider it to be reliable as a news site, only an indicator of what some of the hard-right of the Israeli Likud Party may be thinking about events. Notice that their version of events is quite different from the Sunday Express' version, and a factional political spin of some sort is pretty evident.
We may see more of these "true story of Saddam's capture" stories. Skepticism is in order.
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