Here’s a google cache of a story which the Guardian published online on Sunday, June 12th, but have apparently pulled (search for key phrases from the blockquoted text below on their site to verify.)

Hours earlier Hook, 52, had received a call from a fellow employee at the Los Alamos National Laboratory imploring him to head to the Santa Fe nightspot and hover by the bar. An excited, hushed voice had promised to corroborate Hook’s explosive findings into massive financial irregularities at the birthplace of the nuclear bomb and proposed site for the Bush administration’s new generation of atomic weapons…

The attack was ferocious; a group of up to six men stamped on the head of Hook, a former internal auditor at Los Alamos, with such intensity that footprint marks were still visible on his swollen face days later. A witness claimed that without the intervention of the club’s bouncer, Hook would have been murdered.

His wife Susan later alleged that the assailants told her husband during the beating that ‘if you know what’s good for you, you’ll keep your mouth shut’…

The Observer has tracked down former whistleblowers and US congressional investigators who claim that people are risking serious harm by exposing flaws in the US atomic project at a time when the Bush administration is intent on resuming nuclear weapons production for the first time in 15 years…

Hook too, was about to expose allegations of misconduct against the powerful nuclear lobby. He had been scheduled to testify before the House Energy and Commerce Committee this month on his allegations.

Link to google search for the story; Link to French mirror carrying their story.

UPDATE:

CNN, ABC, and CBS all carried a previous AP article on this.

UPDATE:

From:
To: editor@guardianunlimited.co.uk
Date: Jun 13, 2005 9:49 AM

Subject: Pulled Story - care to respond?

Hello, I notice that the story of “Tommy Hook” published yesterday was pulled from your website. Do you have an explanation as to why this happened?

Thank you

UPDATE:

Fixed the cache link; it had broken. Search for “Mystery of the Nuclear Whistleblower” in google, if the cache is broken.

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