And, if you remember it wasn't an elite unit (like a SEAL team, ForceRecon, or Green Berets) that captured Saddam. It was a tactical team from the 4th ID. (DISCLAIMER: I'm not saying that soldiers in the 4th ID aren't "elite", but just that is wasn't a SEAL team or some other recognized "elite" unit, per se).
Certainly, they had some intelligence information, but it wasn't as if it it was the aforementioned SEAL team that had to battle their way into a palace to snatch Saddam, actions which are often times the result of CIA-fed information.
One might be forgiven for thinking that the intelligence that was used in the initial strike was flawed, whereas the hard-working soldiers of the 4th ID didn't rely on CIA intelligence but on-the-ground intelligence that, in the end, had them nabbing Saddam.
Perhaps that's no coincidence?
Wow! you're the second guy to deliver this perspective. I bet this is why we can't find Bin Laden, this is why WMD was missing, why Saddam was so hard to find.
What about Saddam's sons? Does anyone remember how the military aquired that intell in finding them??