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Documentary On The Scott Speicher Case On The Military Channel Premiered last night, and it will be repeated

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Posted 13 September 2007 - 08:53 PM

If anyone here gets the Military Channel via Dish Network or DirectTV, there is a documentary that premiered last night on The Military Channel about the case of Capt. Scott Speicher. It's titled Prisoner of Iraq? and it goes into more detail than the 60 Minutes piece Bob Simon did before the Iraq War kicked off. One interesting note was that Sen. Bill Nelson (D-FL) and the family continue to get classified briefings on the case, and the tone of the briefs is "Don't give up yet." While it's not likely he's still alive, stranger things have happened in war, but the goal is final closure to the case, one way or another. There was one angle that the documentary didn't explore, and that was his initials scratched into a Baghdad prison wall, and found by U.S. forces a couple days after Baghdad fell in 2003. The Military Channel reruns its shows pretty frequently, so it should be back on soon.
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Posted 14 September 2007 - 08:36 AM

QUOTE(Matt Wiser @ Sep 13 2007, 09:53 PM) View Post

If anyone here gets the Military Channel via Dish Network or DirectTV, there is a documentary that premiered last night on The Military Channel about the case of Capt. Scott Speicher. It's titled Prisoner of Iraq? and it goes into more detail than the 60 Minutes piece Bob Simon did before the Iraq War kicked off. One interesting note was that Sen. Bill Nelson (D-FL) and the family continue to get classified briefings on the case, and the tone of the briefs is "Don't give up yet." While it's not likely he's still alive, stranger things have happened in war, but the goal is final closure to the case, one way or another. There was one angle that the documentary didn't explore, and that was his initials scratched into a Baghdad prison wall, and found by U.S. forces a couple days after Baghdad fell in 2003. The Military Channel reruns its shows pretty frequently, so it should be back on soon.

Thanks Matt.
I don't have access to that channel but the National Alliance of Families has the below information on their website. It is dated, Sept.8, 2005.
Some excerpts follow. The full article goes into much more detail.
For some reason, you need to scroll on the menu on the left of the website page, to access the article. Scroll to Gulf War 1, then click the links to reach the article. One of the links has a photo of the initials scratched into the prison wall.

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Members of the Navy board of inquiry, whose report was made public Thursday, did not go to Iraq or conduct their own investigation. They considered the findings of an initial Navy inquiry in May 1991, plus a report that was filed after a search of the crash site in 1996, and subsequent Navy deliberations on the case as well as a March 2005 intelligence report based on search efforts inside Iraq after Baghdad fell in 2003.
Among the board's findings: "That Captain Speicher likely ejected from the aircraft and may have been captured by Iraqi forces." Also, given that the Iraqi government turned over a flight suit and other items associated with Speicher's aircraft years ago, the board concluded that some members of the former Saddam regime know Speicher's whereabouts.

"In view of the above findings, the board concludes as to the current whereabouts and status of the person that the person is missing/captured," the report said.

A Pentagon team assigned to search for evidence of Speicher after the fall of Baghdad completed its efforts in May 2004. Marine Brig. Gen. Joseph J. McMenamin, who led the search team, told Congress afterward that all in-country leads regarding the pilot's fate had been exhausted.

McMenamin added, however, that some leads could not be fully pursued because of the security threat from the Iraq insurgency. Another problem, he said, was that nomadic Bedouin tribesmen who may have information of value are difficult to find. And some who might have information about Speicher may be intimidated by the threat of retribution by members of the former Saddam regime who are still at large.



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Posted 14 September 2007 - 07:50 PM

I recall when the cell was found, it was all over the news (network as well as cable). One report had the military calling in an FBI crime-scene team, and the Army sealed off the prison, and they were essentially treating the whole prison as a crime scene. One would presume the FBI was looking for DNA, and other evidence, that would show that Speicher had been there, and that was the last I heard of it.
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