World IN BRIEF : IRAQ : Desert Searched for Remains of U.S. Pilot
American military officials and the Red Cross searched in the desert of western Iraq for the remains of a U.S. pilot shot down on the first night of the Persian Gulf War. The team hopes that, by examining the crash site, it will also solve the mystery of why Lt. Cmdr. Michael Scott Speicher’s plane went down after taking off from the aircraft carrier Saratoga on Jan. 16, 1991. The search marks the first formal visit of U.S. military officials to Iraq since the end of the war, which liberated Kuwait from Iraqi occupation in February 1991.
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