Panel: Continue Search for Pilot Lost in Iraq (Scott Speicher)

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Panel: Continue Search for Pilot Lost in Iraq

By Andrew Tilghman - [e-mail]
Posted : Friday Jan 9, 2009 17:12:49 EST

A Navy review board at the Pentagon wants to continue the search for missing pilot Scott Speicher, whose F/A-18 Hornet was shot down over Iraq during the first Gulf War in 1991.

The classified review considered fresh evidence obtained in Iraq since the violence there has subsided.

“There is nothing conclusive to say he died,” said Buddy Harris, a family representative who attended the four-day review.

Speicher’s family — including two college-age children who were toddlers when Speicher went missing — believes he may have ejected safely and been captured by Iraqis. His remains were never found.

Potential clues have emerged that he might have survived: After the 2003 invasion of Iraq, U.S. troops found the initials "MSS" scrawled on a prison wall in Baghdad, for example, and there were reports that Speicher was seen alive.

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http://www.navytimes.com/news/2009/01/ap_lostpilot_010909/%2e

[Enrique]

1. why would they keep him this long

why would Saddam keep him for over ten years, and now that Saddam is gone who's keeping him and what for?

[tech3149]

2. Just to jog the collective memory, who was SecDef in 91?

That would be total dick cheney http://www.defenselink.mil/specials/secdef_histories/bios/cheney.htm

This slimey MF'r has been at the center of the most destructive actions of the US government for decades. It's time to start keeping a personal diary to document history and keep the Winston Smiths from revising history.

Speicher may have lived or died, he was a soldier and tried to fulfill his mission, that's what a soldier does. With the greatest respect and love to the family of Mr Speicher, it must be understood that the military has been used as the enforcer's for the financial interests for decades. I salute their willingness to fight for something they believe in, but I condemn those who would try to profit on the backs of those who have a sense of honor and responsibility.