Iraqi pilot remains found in the Iraqi desert

Iraq has announced that laboratory tests carried out by the International Red Cross stressed that the human remains found in the Iraqi desert are the remains of a Saudi pilot whose plane fell during the Gulf war in 1991.

An official at the Iraqi foreign ministry said in press statements on Tuesday that the laboratory proved after testing the human remains that they are for the Saudi pilot whose plane downed on February 13, 1991.

For its part the Iraqi weekly al-Rafedyeen ( the two tributaries of the Tigris and the Euphrates) said that the operation is completed and the four-years search has stopped for the Saudi pilot col. Muhammad al-Nazera and his plane.

The remains of the Saudi pilot were found in October 2000 buried in a land mine in the desert, 50 Kms from the Iraqi- Saudi borders and the remains were sent to Geneva for test and to decide the identity of its owner. The weekly added that the remains of the plane was found just one kilometer from the burial site.