[JustPiper]

Iraq: On 17 January 1991, LCDR. Speicher was shot down while flying a repression of enemy air defense mission west of Baghdad. No Search and Rescue mission was ever launched. LCDR. Speicher was declared Killed In Action prematurely before the USG had any facts to prove this claim. In early 2001, his status was changed to Missing In Action after evidence continued to pour in showing the possibility that LCDR. Speicher might be alive and held in captivity.

Scott Speicher left in Iraq to save face?

[JustPiper]

A Scott S. Ping!

[Marianne]

It would indeed be great news if Lt. Cmdr. Michael Scott Speicher is alive and returned to the United States.

From the World Net Daily article:
Yarsinske claims Speicher escaped from his aircraft with injuries, made his way through Iraq in search of medical help and eventually was found in the desert and nursed back to health by the Bedouins.
Yarsinske claims Speicher was "alive and in Bedouin protection" for several years after the shootdown - a fact she says she verified . . .
The big break in the case may have come in 1999 from an Iraqi defector who told authorities he had driven an American pilot from the crash site to a hospital.

Isn't this contradictory? Did LCDR Speicher walk through the desert until he found the Bedouins, or was he driven from the crash site to a hospital by an Iraqi defector?

[fatima]

JustPiper,Bump for Michael to come home now.