Iraq Slogger has published a Pentagon Report that they hoped to keep secret.

Critics are questioning a Pentagon decision this week to reverse plans to post on the Web the results of an exhaustive Defense Department-sponsored probe that found the Saddam Hussein regime never had links to al Qaeda.

The Defense Department decided, instead, to provide the report to the press and the public only in response to individual requests for the report to be sent via U.S. snail mail.

Two key sentences from the report's executive summary:

This study found no "smoking gun" (i.e., direct connection) between Saddam's Iraq and al Qaeda. Saddam's interest in, and support for, non-state actors was spread across a variety of revolutionary, liberation, nationalist, and Islamic terrorist organizations.

here is the nine-page executive summary: PDF

Here is the report's first of five volumes (volume one is 97 pages): P_4287_Vol_1.doc

Here is volume two of the report (571 pages): P_4287_Vol_2.doc

Here is volume three of the report (458 pages): P_4287_Vol_3.zip

Volume four of the report (469 pages): P_4287_Vol_4.zip

Volume five of the report (259 pages): P_4287_Vol_5.zip