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Re: Iraq Dismisses US Statements

Date: January 13, 2001

"Iraq Says U.S. Claim That Pilot Still Alive a 'Lie'
(Reuters) - Iraq on Saturday dismissed as a "lie" fresh U.S. claims that a fighter pilot shot down over Iraq in the 1991 Gulf War might still alive.

"It is a new and cheap American lie," an Iraqi Ministry of Culture and Information spokesman said. "When the Iraqi Foreign Ministry reveals documents related to the subject, this lie will be an American scandal," the spokesman said in a statement carried by the official Iraqi News Agency.

However, the spokesman did not say when documents on the pilot would be made public.

In an unusual step, the U.S. Navy has decided to change the status of Lt. Cmdr. Michael Scott Speicher, who was shot down over Iraq early in the 1991 Gulf War, from "killed in action" to "missing in action" because of what it says is evidence that he may have survived the crash.

Speicher became the first American lost on the first day of the air war when his Navy F-18 attack jet was apparently hit and crashed in a fireball during a battle with Iraqi jets on January 17, 1991."

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