Iraqi- Saudi cooperation to find remains of Saudi pilot
Saudi Arabia-Iraq, Politics, 10/25/2000

Director of the Saudi joint forces affairs, families and refugees lt. Gen. Ateyah al-Touri has announced that the search plan for the remains of the Saudi pilot Muhammad Saleh Naderah and the Saudi plane which was downed in the Iraqi territories during the second Gulf war was successfully completed.

In a statement issued on Tuesday in al-Riyadh, al-Touri added that the technical and legal committees were acquainted with parts of the plane and remains of the very small bones which were taken as documents to be tested in laboratories to make sure that they belong to pilot Naderah.

On the other hand, a representative for the International Red Cross in Saudi Arabia denied news that Iraq had handed the body of pilot Nadera to Saudi Arabia.

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