I'm not so sure. It's being written in ever growing numbers.
A few links. The first is the best I think. I don't think it's so much not wanting the US to be right , but the Kurds wanting the glory, not to mention money. It also mention Uday and Qusay.
http://www.sundayherald.com/38816
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Enter one Qusrat Rasul Ali, otherwise known as the lion of Kurdistan. A leader of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK), Rasul Ali was once tortured by Saddam?s henchmen, but today is chief of a special forces unit dedicated to hunting down former Ba?athist regime leaders.
Rasul Ali?s unit had an impressive track record. It was they who last August, working alone, arrested Iraqi vice-president Taha Yassin Ramadan in Mosul, northern Iraq. Barely a month earlier in the al-Falah district of the same town, the PUK is believed to have played a crucial role in the pinpointing and storming of a villa that culminated in the deaths of Saddam?s sons Uday and Qusay.
In that mixed district of Mosul where Arabs, Kurds and Turkemen live side by side, PUK informers went running to their leader Jalal Talabani?s nearest military headquarters to bring him news on the exact location of the villa where both Uday and Qusay had taken shelter.
Armed with the information, Talabani made a beeline for US administration offices in Baghdad, where deputy defence secretary Paul Wolfowitz was based for a week?s stay in Iraq at the time.
The Kurdish leader and US military chiefs conferred and decided that PUK intelligence would go ahead and secretly surround the Zeidan villa and install sensors and eavesdropping devices. The Kurdish agents were instructed to prepare the site for the US special forces operation to storm the building on July 22.
American officials later said they expected that the $30m bounty promised by their government for the capture or death of the Hussein sons would be paid. Given their direct involvement in providing the exact location and intelligence necessary, no doubt Talabani?s PUK operatives could lay claim to the sum, but no confirmation of any delivery or receipt of the cash has ever been made.
The PUK and Rasul Ali?s special ?Ba?athist hunters? have, it seems, been doing what the Americans have consistently failed to do. In an interview with the PUK?s al-Hurriyah radio station last Wednesday, Adil Murad, a member of the PUK?s political bureau, confirmed that the Kurdish unit had been pursuing fugitive Ba?athists for the past months in Mosul, Samarra, Tikrit and areas to the south including al-Dwar where Saddam was eventually cornered. Murad even says that the day before Saddam?s capture he was tipped off by PUK General Thamir al-Sultan, that Saddam would be arrested within the next 72 hours.
Clearly the Kurdish net was closing on Saddam, and PUK head Jalal Talabani and Rasul Ali were once again in the running for US bounty ? should any be going.
It was at about 10.50am Baghdad time on last Saturday when US intel ligence says it got the tip it was looking for. But it was not until 8pm, with the launch of Operation Red Dawn, that they finally began to close in on the prize.
The US media reported that the tip-off came from an Iraqi man who was arrested during a raid in Tikrit, and even speculated that he could get part of the bounty. ?It was intelligence, actionable intelligence,? claimed Lt General Ricardo Sanchez, commander of coalition ground forces in Iraq. ?It was great analytical work.?
But the widely held view that Kurdish intelligence was the key to the operation was supported in a statement released last Sunday by the Iraqi Governing Council. Ahmed Chalabi, leader of the Iraqi National Congress, said that Rasul Ali and his PUK special forces unit had provided vital information and more.
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was 3.15pm Washington time when Donald Rumsfeld called George W Bush at Camp David. ?Mr President, first reports are not always accurate,? he began. ?But we think we may have him.?
First reports ? indeed the very first report of Saddam?s capture ? were also coming out elsewhere. Jalal Talabani chose to leak the news and details of Rasul Ali?s role in the deployment to the Iranian media and to be interviewed by them.
By early Sunday ? way before Saddam?s capture was being reported by the mainstream Western press ? the Kurdish media ran the following news wire:
?Saddam Hussein, the former President of the Iraqi regime, was captured by the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan. A special intelligence unit led by Qusrat Rasul Ali, a high-ranking member of the PUK, found Saddam Hussein in the city of Tikrit, his birthplace. Qusrat?s team was accompanied by a group of US soldiers. Further details of the capture will emerge during the day; but the global Kurdish party is about to begin!?
By the time Western press agencies were running the same story, the emphasis had changed, and the ousted Iraqi president had been ?captured in a raid by US forces backed by Kurdish fighters.?
http://sify.com/news/fullstory.php?id=13341763
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_world/view/62977/1/.html