A British newspaper, the Sunday Express, and the Kurdish news agency in Iraq are reporting that Saddam Hussein was found last week not by the United States but by Iraqi Kurds. The reports claim that Hussein was captured in Tikrit after he was tracked down by a Kurdish militia comprising members of the Patriot Union of Kurdistan. He was then drugged and handed over to the U.S. The Kurdish news agency reported the U.S. insisted that his capture be made to look like an American arrest because U.S. officials worried that such a coup for the Kurds might provoke an Arab-Kurd civil war.