HUSHED RELEASE: The Pentagon on Wednesday canceled plans for broad public release of a study that found no pre-Iraq war link between late Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and Al Qaeda terrorist network. Rather than posting the report online and making officials available to discuss it, as had been planned, the U.S. Joint Forces Command said it would mail copies of the document to reporters if they ask for it. The report won’t be posted on the Internet.
GRISLY MESSAGE: U.S. authorities in Baghdad have received five severed fingers belonging to four Americans and an Austrian taken hostage more than a year ago in Iraq, U.S. officials said Wednesday. The FBI is investigating the grisly development, and the families of the five kidnapped contractors have been notified, U.S. officials said.
