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Rumsfeld: Iraq made no offer regarding Gulf War pilot
AP via Navy Times ^ | March 25, 2002 | AP Staff

Posted on 3/26/2002, 2:32:23 AM by Excuse_My_Bellicosity

Edited on 5/8/2004, 5:11:46 AM by Jim Robinson. [history]

Iraq has not invited a U.S. delegation to discuss the fate of an American pilot shot down over Iraq during the Gulf War, Bush administration officials said Monday. An Iraqi Foreign Ministry spokesman said Sunday that his country is

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: lcdrspeicher; mia; pow
Maybe Saddam put out this story in order to look like a nice guy while offering no real invitation. Or maybe the liberal press floated the story so that they could later say that the Bush Administration bungled the negotiations to possibly get Speicher back. I wouldn't put it past them.
1 posted on 3/26/2002, 2:32:23 AM by Excuse_My_Bellicosity
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2 posted on 3/26/2002, 5:00:31 PM by Slam
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