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June 30, 2004
More To the Story
Susanna was right, there is more to the story of the Marine currently being held hostage in Iraq.
The American marine who is being threatened by his kidnappers with beheading had deserted the military because he was emotionally traumatized, and was abducted by his captors while trying to make his way home to his native Lebanon, a Marine officer said Tuesday.
The officer, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said he believed that Cpl. Wassef Ali Hassoun was betrayed by Iraqis he befriended on his base and ended up in the hands of Islamic extremists.
Apparently instead of smuggling him out of the country, the Iraqis turned him over to his current captors.
Regardless of how he got there, he's likely to end up just as dead as the rest.
Posted by Rita at June 30, 2004 05:40 AM