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Question: "My question is to you, Mr. Cronauer. Where is the piece from the jail cell. Do we have this back in the United States and are we testing it...and have we tested the jail cell to find out any more information?" ***** Comment: You can hear muffled discussion and one individual says "I can answer that" and Mr. Cronauer tells him to do so... ***** Answer: "Yes, the answer to the question is...Yes, we have that portion of the wall, Yes it is in the United States and Yes, it is being examined by a forensic laboratory." Question: "And how long will that take?" Answer: "I can't tell you that. I can tell you that it has been here for about the last three weeks." Question: "So we will have some answers very shortly then...it won't take years, since they have that piece" Answer: "Well that...the...I can't give you a specific time, in terms of how long it will take them to run all of the different tests that they can run. There is a limited amount of information that we can get from that
Answer: "Yes, the answer to the question is...Yes, we have that portion of the wall, Yes it is in the United States and Yes, it is being examined by a forensic laboratory."
Question: "And how long will that take?"
Answer: "I can't tell you that. I can tell you that it has been here for about the last three weeks."
Question: "So we will have some answers very shortly then...it won't take years, since they have that piece"
Answer: "Well that...the...I can't give you a specific time, in terms of how long it will take them to run all of the different tests that they can run. There is a limited amount of information that we can get from that
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piece of wall. We can find out, perhaps, how long ago his initials were put in the wall. Unless there is a blood or some sort of DNA sample near the initials, we cannot necessarily say who put those initials in the wall. But a whole series of tests is being conducted right now and like I said, I don't have a time frame for what those.... Let me just say this. That particular bit of evidence is not under the control right now of the Defense Prisoner of War Missing Personnel Office. There are entities in country, in Iraq right now, who are looking...who are gathering evidence for war crimes prosecution. So other elements of the government are looking at this. If Speicher was in fact captured and was alive for a period of time after the downing, and he was killed, then this is potentially evidence to charge those involved in the former Iraq regime with. So that evidence is on that side of the house right now, not just the US Army, CILHI, the Central Identification lab.... Question: "We're kind of on a time limit here, so I wanted to know...What's being done with the rest of the jail cell. Have they made any....I mean just because they have this one piece of block, there could be something in that jail cell...and is it top priority?" Answer: "Yes, of course......The jail cell.... Question: "But it won't take a long time if it's a top priority, on the front burner?" Answer: " It has already been done. The jail cell has already been done. There is a considerable amount of effort, ongoing, in Iraq at this time. Every single known detention facility, jail cell...... Question: "Okay, Okay...we're on a time line....
Let me just say this. That particular bit of evidence is not under the control right now of the Defense Prisoner of War Missing Personnel Office. There are entities in country, in Iraq right now, who are looking...who are gathering evidence for war crimes prosecution. So other elements of the government are looking at this. If Speicher was in fact captured and was alive for a period of time after the downing, and he was killed, then this is potentially evidence to charge those involved in the former Iraq regime with. So that evidence is on that side of the house right now, not just the US Army, CILHI, the Central Identification lab....
Question: "We're kind of on a time limit here, so I wanted to know...What's being done with the rest of the jail cell. Have they made any....I mean just because they have this one piece of block, there could be something in that jail cell...and is it top priority?"
Answer: "Yes, of course......The jail cell....
Question: "But it won't take a long time if it's a top priority, on the front burner?"
Answer: " It has already been done. The jail cell has already been done. There is a considerable amount of effort, ongoing, in Iraq at this time. Every single known detention facility, jail cell......
Question: "Okay, Okay...we're on a time line....