We have no idea if this is true or not, but it sounds plausible. A British paper is reporting that Saddam was held by the Kurds, drugged and left for US troops to capture.

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 Sunday newspaper said.

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".

Update: DEBKAfile says Saddam Hussein was not in hiding, he was a prisoner. The Sydney Morning Herald has more on the Kurds' claim.