"Saddam Hussein was telling the truth, this time.
The United States just didn't believe him.

So it took the most powerful military in the world
18 years to find the remains of the only U.S. Navy
pilot shot down in an aerial battle in the 1991 Gulf
War.

Michael "Scott" Speicher's bones lay 18 inches
deep in Iraqi sand, more or less right where a group
of Iraqis had led an American search team in 1995.

The search for Speicher was frustrated by two
wars, mysteriously switched remains, Iraqi
duplicity and a final tip from a young nomad in
Anbar province."

See:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091128/...hidden_in_sand