WASHINGTON — Navy pilot Michael "Scott" Speicher was shot down over the Iraq desert on the first night of the Gulf War in 1991 and it was there where he apparently was buried by Bedouins, the sand hiding him from the world's mightiest military all these years.
Sands hid fate of Gulf War pilot lost since '91
Sunday, August 2, 2009 | 5:10 p.m. CDT
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