IRAQIS STILL HOLD U.S. MIA PILOT: SPY REPORT By NILES LATHEM
January 11, 2003 -- WASHINGTON - U.S. intelligence agencies have recently received bombshell new information suggesting that an American Navy pilot shot down over Iraq in 1991 is still alive and is languishing in Saddam Hussein's prisons, it was revealed yesterday. Two important new reports have surfaced in the past two months giving new credence to the suspicion that Navy Lt. Capt. Michael Speicher survived after his F/A-18 Hornet jet was shot down over Iraq on the first day of the Persian Gulf War, according to Pentagon officials and the family's lawyer.
Baghdad has claimed he is dead, but Cindy Laquidara, a Jacksonville, Fla., lawyer for Speicher's family, told The Post she had recently spoken to an Iraqi defector whom she described as a government official "who was in a position to know."
Laquidara also said she and family members were briefed by U.S. intelligence agencies at a secure facility at the Jacksonville Naval Air Station yesterday about an even fresher report that came in sometime in November, appearing to corroborate the defector's account that the Navy pilot is being secretly held by the Iraqis.
Meanwhile, the U.N.'s chief nuclear watchdog, Mohamed ElBaradei, met yesterday with National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice and Secretary of State Colin Powell.
ElBaradei was asking the White House for more specific intelligence information to help in the search in Iraq for banned nuclear and biochemical weapons.
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