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March 23, 2006 — Following are the ABC News Investigative Unit's summaries of five documents from Saddam Hussein's government, which the U.S. government has released. The documents discuss Osama bin Laden, weapons of mass destruction, al Qaeda and more. The full documents can be found on the U.S. Army Foreign Military Studies Office Web site: http://fmso.leavenworth.army.mil/products-docex.htm. Note: Document titles were added by ABC News. "U.S. War Plan Leaked to Iraqis by Russian Ambassador" Documents dated March 5-8, 2003 Two Iraqi documents dated in March 2003 — on the eve of the U.S.-led invasion — and addressed to the secretary of...

There comes a moment in most lives when something we respect lets us down. This week, under the scrutiny of Lord Hutton, a British institution is suffering that humiliation. It is the Today programme, a broadcast phenomenon that has become accustomed to perceiving itself as the nearest thing to the collective sense of identity of the British middle class. The late Brian Redhead once described Today, to which six million Britons wake up, as a forum in which "a great many powerful, interesting, funny, angry, brave, frightened people drop a word in the ear of the nation". Lately that definition...

Kevin Marsh, editor of BBC Radio 4's Today programme, sent two emails in the wake of the reports by correspondent Andrew Gilligan based on conversations with weapons expert Dr David Kelly. The first, presented to Lord Hutton's inquiry into Dr Kelly's apparent suicide, was sent to the head of BBC Radio News, Stephen Mitchell, on 27 June: Some thoughts, clearly I have to talk to AG [Andrew Gilligan] early next week. I hope that by then my worst fears - based on what I'm hearing from the spooks [intelligence officers] this afternoon - aren't realised. Assuming not, the guts of...

The Hutton Inquiry into the death of Government weapons expert Dr David Kelly is hearing its third day of evidence. Susan Watts, BBC2 Newsnight's science editor, returned to the witness box to continue giving evidence into the death of Government scientist David Kelly. Susan Watts' evidence James Dingemans QC, counsel to the inquiry, resumed his questioning of Ms Watts about her dealings with Dr Kelly. She said the purpose of her conversation with Dr Kelly on May 7 was for background. "If there were points of interest I felt to be newsworthy, I would return to those points with him...

Police searching for the weapons expert named by the government as the possible source for a BBC story on Iraq say they have discovered a man's body. The body was found at 0920 BST by a member of the police team searching for Dr Kelly in a wooded area at Harrowdown Hill, near Faringdon, Oxfordshire, but has not yet been identified. Government adviser David Kelly, 59, went missing from his home in Southmoor, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, at about 1500 BST on Thursday. The body was found around five miles from his home. Earlier this week, Dr Kelly denied being the BBC's...