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From: Andi Wolos & Bob Necci

(POW-MIA InterNetwork)

Re: DNA Identification of Gulf War MIA

Date: September 01, 2001

Evidently the Middle East has the ability to track, trace, recover and identify. Iraq has the ability to turn over remains. All parties have the ability to turn over Prisoners. Yet, nothing has been said about Persian Gulf MIA Michael Scott Speicher. Could it be that the ONLY time anyone in government is interested is when the man is dead and there's only remains to worry about?

Today's News -

"DNA Tests Prove Identity of Gulf War Pilot - Saudi

RIYADH (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia said on Friday that laboratory tests had proved human remains found in Iraq belonged to a Saudi pilot who had been missing since his plane was shot down during the 1991 Gulf War.

The aviation and defense ministry said in a statement that DNA tests conducted on the remains handed over by Iraq after they were found last year showed they were those of Colonel Mohammed Nazerah.

"After verifying the laboratory data, the Ministry of Aviation and Defense is now certain that the aforementioned pilot was martyred," a ministry official said in a statement carried by the official Saudi Press Agency.

The statement gave no further details.

Iraq said in January tests conducted in Geneva under the auspices of the International Committee of the Red Cross confirmed that the remains found last October in the Iraqi desert close to the Saudi border were those of the pilot.

But Saudi media said at the time the kingdom had demanded a re-examination to determine the cause and time of his death.

Iraq had said the pilot's plane was shot down in 1991. An Iraqi officer who had buried the pilot in a minefield identified the burial site, and the wreckage of a plane was found about half a mile away.

Hundreds of people were reported missing after the Gulf War. Accounting for them is one of several conditions Iraq must meet before trade sanctions imposed by the United Nations after Baghdad's 1990 invasion of Kuwait can be lifted.

Saudi Arabia contributed to the U.S.-led international force that drove Iraqi troops out of Kuwait."