stepping back in time...
http://www.treas.gov/press/releases/hp644.htm
October 25, 2007
hp-644
“Fact Sheet: Designation of Iranian Entities and Individuals for Proliferation Activities and Support for Terrorism”
http://mypetjawa.mu.nu/archives/191709.php
March 12, 2008
“US Receives Fingers of Iraq Hostages (Updated and Bumped)”
“A possible break in the case of the 5 kidnapped contractors? Via the Washington Post:”
VIENNA (Reuters) -
SNIPPET: “UPDATE: McClatchey Newspapers are reporting that one of the fingers belongs to Ronald Withrow, an American computer technician kidnapped in January 2007 in Basra, but who was not confirmed as being held by the kidnappers of the Crescent Security contractors:
Authorities have confirmed that the fingers belonged to hostages Jonathan Cote, of Gainesville, Fla., Joshua Munz, of Redding, Calif., Paul Reuben, of Buffalo, Minn., Bert Nussbaumer of Vienna, Austria, and Ronald J. Withrow, of Lubbock, Texas.
[. . .]
There was no word today on a fifth contractor who was seized with them, John Young, of Kansas City. Contrary to Austrian news reports, none of the fingers belonged to him, authorities said.”