The Insider: Daily Terrorism Report

ByABC News
July 8, 2004, 12:40 PM

July 8 -- U.S. Marine Cpl. Wassef Ali Hassoun who was reportedly taken hostage in Iraq last week is now at the U.S. Embassy in Beirut, ABCNEWS has learned. A small team of agents went out to a location, picked up Hassoun and took him to the embassy, where he was debriefed. There have been several contradictory reports over the past week about the fate and whereabouts of Hassoun. He was reported missing from his unit in Iraq on June 20th.

And, responding to Supreme Court rulings, the Defense Department will create a panel of military officers to review whether prisoners at Guantanamo Bay are being held legally and will notify the 595 prisoners within 10 days of their right to contest their detention in U.S. courts, officials said Wednesday. The move, which human rights activists criticized as inadequate, followed last week's Supreme Court decision that foreign terrorism suspects held at the base could turn to federal courts to challenge their confinements.

IRAQ NEWS

U.S. Embassy: Missing Marine Is In LebanonU.S. Embassy says it has credible information that the missing marine is in Lebanon. (AP)Note: ABCNEWS has learned that U.S. Marine Cpl. Wassef Ali Hassoun is already at the U.S. Embassy in Beirut.

4 U.S. Soldiers Killed In Iraq Gunfire4 U.S. Soldiers were killed and 20 were people wounded as insurgents fired mortar rounds at Iraq guard base. (AP)

Filipino Workers Barred From Going To IraqAl Jazeera broadcasts videotape of the Filipino hostage and Philippines bars workers to Iraq. (AP)

U.N. Didn't OK Uranium Transfer To U.S.The U.S. transferred nearly 2 million tons of uranium from Iraq to the U.S. without U.N. authorization. (AP)

Militant Group Claims Fallujah KillingsA militant group calling itself the Islamic Army in Iraq claimed responsibility for the March 31st killings of four American contractors whose bodies were mutilated in the restive city of Fallujah. (AP)

Senate Iraq Report Said To Skirt White House Use Of IntelligenceA bipartisan Senate report to be issued Friday that is highly critical of prewar intelligence on Iraq will sidestep the question of how the Bush administration used that information to make the case for war, Congressional officials said Wednesday. (NY Times)