Sorry I didn't look in here before. Could it be the fact that they've found some other poor sod to put in the place of the assassinated "leader," and that poor guy is supposedly leading a "sovereign Iraqi government" in six weeks' time? I don't envy him being the one Bremer pinned the tail on. And then there's this little tidbit:

KUWAIT CITY : Saddam Hussein and some 100 former members of his Baathist regime detained by the US-led coalition in Iraq will be handed over to Iraqis before the June 30 power transfer, the head of the Iraqi war crimes tribunal said.

"We have a hundred detainees (who were) senior leaders of the former regime, including Saddam Hussein, Tareq Aziz and Ali Hasan al-Majid," lawyer Salam Chalabi, the tribunal's director general, said on arrival at Kuwait airport.

SRS