[JSteff]

"If it does emerge that most of the information that led to Saddam's arrest did indeed come from Kurdish sources, this will probably boost their status with Washington."

They way our government often works though is that this could be considered an embarrassment to the CIA, DIA, etc. Bureaucrats have a way of hurting those who embarrass them.

The Kurds have done marvelous work for us in Iraq over the years. I hope we do not let them down.

[WackyKat]

I trust the Kurds a lot more more than I do the Arabs.

Though why they should trust us after the way the Bush 1 administration encouraged them to rise up and them left them out to be slaughtered, I don't know.