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U.S. Forces Interrogating Iraqis About Pilot Missing Since 1991 Jun 24, 2003 The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - U.S. forces interrogating some Iraqi prisoners are seeking details about the case of Navy pilot Michael Scott Speicher, missing since his fighter jet was shot down on the opening night of the 1991 Persian Gulf War, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said Tuesday. Rumsfeld would not say whether there were any new clues to the fate of Speicher, the only American serviceman still listed as missing from the Gulf War. "There is nothing that has been turned up thus far that I...

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Hope reawakens By LON WAGNER AND AMY WATERS YARSINSKE, The Virginian-Pilot © January 3, 2002 In September 1996, the Navy looked over everything it knew about Scott Speicher. The early reports about the fireball. That he might have lost his survival radio. What they found at the crash site. No blood. No bones. No body. A good ejection. Then the Navy reaffirmed its May 1991 finding. Once again, Speicher was declared killed in action/body not recovered. The story might have ended. But just when it seemed there was nothing more to investigate, no more hope that Speicher might have survived, ...

Returning to Iraq By LON WAGNER AND AMY WATERS YARSINSKE, The Virginian-Pilot © January 2, 2002 The convoy rolled out of Baghdad the morning of Dec. 10, 1995, and headed toward the crash site. Nine months had passed since Iraq agreed to allow a visit to the wreckage of Scott Speicher's F/A-18, though Baghdad had postponed it three times. A year had gone by since Timothy Connolly urged his superiors at the Pentagon to secretly dispatch a team to the desert. Two years had passed since Qataris found Speicher's jet. Only the night before in Baghdad, the International Committee of ...

Military A test of honor By LON WAGNER AND AMY YARSINSKE, The Virginian-Pilot © January 1, 2002 Pieces of wreckage were on the desert floot and easily recognizable, including the 20mm gun, foreground, that was mounted in the nose of the jet. Timothy Connolly had been in his Pentagon job just a few months when a staffer came back from a meeting with a curious question: ``Do you know anything about a downed pilot from Desert Storm?'' No, Connolly said. ``Well, I think there's something going on.'' Somebody had mentioned the pilot and then clammed up, the man said. Connolly, ...