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Monday, August 25, 2003
Another one bites the dust

Another Administration lie, that is. Remember the story of Scott Speicher, the Navy pilot who is the only military pilot still unaccounted for from the first Gulf War? The Pentagon listed him as "killed in action" after his plane was shot down over Iraq on January 17, 1991. Later, "evidence" in the form of an Iraqi defector said that he was being held in one of Saddam Hussein's prisons.

Yahoo! News - Source: 'Speicher Died Of His Injuries' : "With regard to his change of status to 'alive presumed captured,' senior military sources tell NBC that 'Pentagon officials demanded the change to further justify the war' in Iraq. "
It looks like that was just more faith-based intelligence, as investigations are ready to conclude that Speicher was killed when his plane went down and DNA evidence provides no reason to believe he was held in a Baghdad cell where initials matching his were found scratched into a wall.
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