Details are still a bit sketchy, but American forces in Iraq say a lot of the credit for tracking down Iraq's elusive dictator has to go to Private Jessica Lynch.

"If she hadn't decided to interrupt her book tour to come over here and give us a hand," said L. Paul Bremer, the U.S. administrator of Iraq, "Saddam Hussein would probably still be out there somewhere and who knows when we would have found him."

This quote is part of an article in the Toronto Star entitled When Saddam saw it was Lynch, he gave up.

Funny stuff, eh?

At the foot of the piece is this:

Linwood Barclay's column appears Monday, Friday and Saturday.
E-mail him at lbarclay@thestar.ca

I humbly suggest to the Dear Reader that he do so.