Missing Story

Sometimes, I have to laugh at the Chron. Most of the time, actually.

Tuesday, they reported that cell phones headed to Al Qaeda were intercepted at the port of Houston. I get a daily email digest of the news from the Chron every day, and I'm reproducing it verbatim:

Phones headed to al-Qaida intercepted at port
A shipment of about 1,000 cellular telephones being exported to al-Qaida operatives was intercepted at the Port of Houston several months ago, authorities said Monday.

Now, the Chron is reporting that customs officials have retracted the earlier statement linking the seizure to Al Qaeda.

What is most curious is that the Chron has already removed the original story from its site, which is unusual (they usually stay up for weeks). I wonder if it's still available in the archives. Any of you subscribers care to look and let me know?

(09-11-02 Update) Charles Kuffner emails and says the original story is in the archives. It would be really weird had they deleted that one too.

[Posted at 23:28 CST on 09/10/02] [Link]