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More on Speicher

The following is from the Washington Times, Inside The Ring column by Bill

Gertz and Rowan Scarborough, dated February 14, 2003





DIA says Speicher alive Defense Intelligence Agency



Director Vice Adm. Lowell Jacoby told Congress this week that missing Navy

pilot Capt. Michael Scott Speicher is believed to be alive and held

prisoner in Baghdad.



During a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on worldwide threats, Adm.

Jacoby was asked by the committee chairman, Sen. Pat Roberts, Kansas

Republican, about the pilot, who was reclassified for a second time in

October to "missing/captured" based on intelligence that Iraq has been

holding an American pilot since the 1991 Persian Gulf war.



"We have a number of leads ...," Adm. Jacoby said, noting there is no

conclusive information on Capt. Speicher's fate. "Our assessment is we are

pursuing it as if Captain Scott Speicher is alive and being held by the

Iraqis," he said. "We continue with our assessment that the Iraqis know of

his fate and that they are not forthcoming with the information that they

have available."