According to Yahoo! News - Saddam was held by Kurdish forces, drugged and left for US troops. I guess the story the media was trumpeting last week can go into the round file with the 'heroic Jessica Lynch' story.

An unnamed Western intelligence source in the Middle East told the Express: "Saddam was not captured as a result of any American or British intelligence. We knew that someone would eventually take their revenge, it was just a matter of time."