Iraq offers to let US team search for captured pilot

[ThePresence]

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[Bluga]

Tha pilot never existed.

 

[Random Variable]

<< Tha pilot never existed. >>


I'm not convinced that you exist.

 

[Spoooon]

CNN article


<< The Iraqi offer had several conditions, including that the media cover any search team's activities and that American Scott Ritter -- a former U.N. weapons inspector who has been critical of some U.S. policies toward Iraq -- be part of any U.S. delegation. >>


Why would they require Ritter to be included? Wasn't there an attempt on his life while he was a weapons inspector?

 

[etech]

Bluga, my first impluse and it's a strong one is to call you an a**hole. On second thought I'll let you explain your statement before jumping to what appears to be the obvious conclusion.

Google -"Michael Scott Speicher "-

 

[Pacfanweb]

<<Cmdr. Speicher's wife and two children are "very optimistic" he is alive, >>

If they find him, I wonder how that will work......his wife has remarried to his best friend. I'm sure the family would love the chance to try and work that situation out, though. The wife's new husband is supposed to be really supportive of finding Speicher.

 

[WA261]

let me spell it out for ya.....S E A R C H =P

 

[DaiShan]

nah, it has just taken the iraqi's 11 years to find a guy that looks enough like him that if they conk him over the head a brainwash him could potentially make the US look bad.

 

[ViperMagic]

<< Why would they require Ritter to be included? Wasn't there an attempt on his life while he was a weapons inspector? >>



So they dont fail a second time?

 

[Atrail]

Maybe they will let some United Nation workers search for him in the Chem Labs where they are
developing weapons grade Anthrax. Or even better yet look for him in the Nuclear facilities where
they are painting American flags on there up and coming war heads.
J/K

 

[Spoooon]

<< So they dont fail a second time? >>


I was kind of wondering that, but it seems too obvious a ploy. Besides, could you imagine the fallout if he were killed?

 

[rickn]

<< Or even better yet look for him in the Nuclear facilities where >>



Iraq is still a ways off from that. They'll need to do testing, which they haven't done. Biological, chemical and nuclear testing were part of the reason those no fly zones were established. It keeps him confined, allowes much closer reconnaissance. We know exactly what they are up to, and we'll take them down before they ever do testing like Pakistan and India both did

 

[Pastfinder]

Personally I think the man is dead. I'd pretty sure that Iraq has the body and has been jerking our chain for 11 years. Hope we recover the man, then deal with Iraq.

 

[d33pt]

in the unlikely event that iraq kept a POW alive for a decade, it's not likely that they'd just hand him over and say "oh sorry, he's one of yours?"