According to CENTCOM, a house apparently used as a place to hold captives was found by officers who also intercepted more would-be victims.
They also found two bottles of anesthetic which was presumably intended to drug the victims and make them appear docile on video.
(Thanks to
Junkyard Blog for the link)
Good.
In the Kurdish area? Maybe they were criminals rather than Islamists or ‘insurgents’. Maybe even criminals paid by the Islamists; paid for by the money Saddam, had squirelled away.