] The administration officials said they had been relying
] on intelligence from Iraqis who had not spoken to them in
] the past. "People are talking to us now and telling us
] things now that they would never have dreamed of telling
] us," one senior official said. "People are sticking their
] necks out in all kinds of ways in Iraq that they never
] would do before."
]
] "There was no question about the legality of the target,
] but there was some discussion about how solid the
] information was and who might actually be there and
] when," the official said. "The conclusion was that even
] though we didn't know for sure, it was an important
] target in any case."

It would be really funny if the Iraqis who were giving out intellegence were just telling us the locations of people they didn't like.