I like the carrot offered by the flier.
I believe the stick should also be applied. (Not panties on the head.)
This is perhaps the only topic on which alan dershowitz and I agree.
I'm convinced he is alive.
I hope they are distributing the same kind of fliers for SPC Keith Maupin who is also still unaccounted for. I believe he may have even been promoted to SGT since his capture.
It would be great if someone has info in Iraq; I'll hold out hope until I hear otherwise.
We all need to remember Speicher in our prayers.
Keeping him and his family in my prayers - just saw this on Fox News.
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i know its pretty grim but i don't see why the iraqi government would have held onto this officer in 1991 when it returned the other POW's and the bodies of allied aircrew and soldiers that it held.
if they wanted to use him as a hostage then surely we would of seen him paraded on TV in 2003 handcuffed to Saddam Hussein.
the article mentioned his flying suit, i'm assuming that it showed some indication of what happened to him, whether he was injured, whether he was able to dump the suit and go on an E&E that didn't work or whether he was captured and stripped.
the accounts of British POW's were that they weren't changed into POW overalls until just before they were released, and that they and most of the other prisoners were kept in the same prison and had been able to establish some contact with each other.
we know that three british SF soldiers who were killed in western iraq in 1991 were buried by the local army units in marked graves and their remains were returned in the weeks after the ceasefire. one of the soldiers was way off the beaten track when he died and was buried and his grave took some time to locate, but the iraqis did hold up there end of the agreemets with regard to the return of POW's.
i can't speculate on why his body would not have been returned but given the british experience i would be very surprised if the iraqis had deliberately either hid his body or kept him in prison for 12 years without making some propaganda use from him.
prayers for his family, but i fear they will hear no good news.
"WASHINGTON – A Navy pilot shot down over Iraq in January 1991 may have been captured by Iraqi forces, and members of the former Iraqi government "know the whereabouts" of the officer, the Navy has concluded.
A Navy board of inquiry concluded that there is no credible evidence that Capt. Michael "Scott" Speicher is dead, and it reaffirmed his official status as "missing/captured," according to the board's final report.
The board also recommended that the Pentagon work with the State Department, the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad and the Iraqi government to "increase the level of attention and effort inside Iraq" to resolve the question of Speicher's fate.
Navy Secretary Gordon England approved the report on Wednesday, according to Lt. Erin Bailey, a Navy spokeswoman..."
Give me 45 minutes with one of the suspects. I'll need a ball peen hammer and a pair of pliers and I guarantee we'll know what any one of them knows.
I'll only need about 20 minutes, the rest of the time is just for some revenge.
The photo shows Lt. (O-3) Michael Speicher.
In a Jan 1, 2001 Pentagon press release Michael Speicher held the rank of Commander (O-5).
He apparently has been promoted twice since his capture. His next US Navy rank will be Captain (O-6).