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GULF WAR I


  • September 8, 2005 -- Navy: Iraqis Know MIA Pilot's Whereabouts

  • FBI lab probes 2nd set of initials ... These initials found in wooden beam.

  • Pentagon decides "not to continue offering $1 million reward for information" on Capt. Scott Speicher. See letter from Senator Bill Nelson.

  • Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for POW/MIA Affairs comments on Speicher Case... Click here


  • Did Saddam Hold Remains of American Airmen.... click here

  • Pentagon Debunks Speicher Live Sighting... click here

  • Senators Optimistic on Speicher.... DPMO Provides Misinformation click here for details.

  • Senator Bill Nelson vists cell where Capt. Speicher may have been held. For photos and storyclick here

  • Speichers Name Found in Iraqi Document.... click here.



    April 24, 2003 - Investigators Find Initials M.S.S. on Wall of Iraqi Prisoner. View Associated Press Article

  • Speicher Status Change to Missing/Captured -- View Memo from Secretary of Navy Gordon R. England, regarding Speicher's Change In Status.

  • Press Release from the Office of Senator Pat Roberts (R-KS), regarding Speicher Status Change.

  • Letter from then Secretary of Defense Dick Chaney dated June 1991 All Gulf War MIAs accounted for. "The lessons Vietnam taught us were used in the Gulf War." View the letter.


  • New Intelligence Reports Indicate Speicher May Be Alive As Recently As January 2002. Read the latest from...

  • The Washington Times by Bill Gertz -- March 11, 2002


  • The Chicago Tribune by Christine Spolar -- March 12, 2002

  • "The answer lies in Baghdad...What we need to do now is get answers from Baghdad. This pilot, if he's alive, has been there for 10 years, with nobody looking for him. That's just plain outrageous."

    Senator Bob Smith (R-NH) January 2001



  • Intelligence Community Assessment of the Lieutenant Commander Speicher Case - produced at the request of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.

  • The Status Change What it Means to Michael Speicher and the POW/MIA Issue.


  • NEWS RELEASE from the United States Department of Defense - Navy Changes Status of Cmdr. Michael Scott Speicher from Killed In Action to Missing in Action.

  • CBS News 60 Minutes II - The First Casualty - Aired April 2000

  • APBNew.Com - First Casualty of Gulf War May Have Survived Crash - Aug. 2, 1999

  • Letter to National Alliance of Families Providing information on Speicher Loss, dated 19 July 1999

  • List of POWs returned from Gulf War I

  • You can help by signing the online petition to Bring Michael Scott Speicher Home. The petition, started by Nikki Mendicino, can be viewed at http://www.PetitionOnline.com/Speicher/petition.html


    In a vote held July 29th 2003, the United States Senate passed S 1339 - the Speicher Bill.

    Thanks To Your Efforts

    To view the final list of co-sponsors click here. Text of S 1339 also known as the "Speicher Bill" click here

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