Editor's Note:  This isn't the end of this story by a long-shot.  There are many questions surrounding the "capture" of Saddam Hussein that beg.  Axis of Logic is currently researching information from around the world on events leading up to the night of December 13, the date of Saddam Hussein's alleged capture by U.S. Troops.  The report below tells us that "Kurdish forces" captured, drugged and handed Saddam Hussein to the Americans.  Is this true?  Prior to this report, others have stated credible reasons to believe he had been captured earlier.  Was he captured earlier by the Americans and held secretly until news of his capture yielded the greatest benefit to the Neocon/Bush regime?  Is this Kurdish story designed to provide cover for such a scenario?  Or is it the "real Saddam" who was actually captured - or a "body-double" as some believe? At this point, we are not playing with "conspiracy theories", but we have raised serious questions about the timing of the capture and we will continue to raise them. - Les Blough

AFP/ABC, December 22 - Saddam Hussein was captured by US troops only after he had been taken prisoner by Kurdish forces, drugged and abandoned ready for American soldiers to recover him, a British tabloid newspaper has reported.

Saddam came into the hands of the Kurdish Patriotic Front after being betrayed to the group by a member of the al-Jabour tribe, whose daughter had been raped by Saddam's son Uday, leading to a blood feud, reported the Sunday Express, which quoted an unnamed senior British military intelligence officer.

The newspaper said the full story of events leading up to the ousted Iraqi president's capture on December 13 near his hometown of Tikrit in northern Iraq, "exposes the version peddled by American spin doctors as incomplete".

A former Iraqi intelligence officer, whom the Express did not name, told the paper that Saddam was held prisoner by a leader of the Kurdish Patriotic Front, which fought alongside US forces during the Iraq war, until he negotiated a deal.

The deal apparently involved the group gaining political advantage in the region.

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." -- AFP/ABC