Cpl. Wassef Hassoun personal items found in Falluja

[Passions]

http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/...un.evidence/index.html

Personally, i think he is a traitor. But this makes things interesting.

 

[EagleKeeper]

My biggest concern with that case was how he was able to make it all the way to Lebanon without any money or ID.

Allful dangerous area to be hitchhiking around /sarcasm

 

[b0mbrman]

Originally posted by: Passions
http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/...un.evidence/index.html

Personally, i think he is a traitor. But this makes things interesting.

I'd wait for those new interviews before making judgments...also, I wonder what the circumstances are that they found him in Lebanon

 

[Infohawk]

Originally posted by: Passions
http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/...un.evidence/index.html

Personally, i think he is a traitor. But this makes things interesting.

Why do you think he's a traitor?

 

[theblackbox]

Originally posted by: Infohawk

Originally posted by: Passions
http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/...un.evidence/index.html

Personally, i think he is a traitor. But this makes things interesting.

Why do you think he's a traitor?

because it was reported on cnn. if it had been fox, then the story would have been debunked.

maybe because it was mysterious that he was kidnapped???? then let go compared to all the other american and other people that were kidnapped, then not released in one piece.

 

[b0mbrman]

His not being killed certainly doesn't prove he's a traitor. Here's more background for those interested:

Missing marine said he did not desert his post

A spokesman said the marine corps could not yet confirm or refute Cpl Hassoun's claim....

"I did not desert my post," he told reporters outside Quantico marine base near Washington.

Cpl Hassoun went missing on 21 June and surfaced in Beirut on 8 July.

It is unclear how he was able to get from Iraq to Lebanon. He would have had to travel 800km, much of it across Syrian territory.

Cpl Hassoun was born in Lebanon, educated at American schools there and then joined the US marines after moving to Utah four years ago.

The 24-year-old is fluent in Arabic, French and English and was reportedly serving as a translator in his second stint in Iraq when he was captured.

A marine spokesman said Cpl Hassoun had expressed no reluctance at returning to full duty, if and when such a decision is made.

Militants Deny Killing Marine

An Islamic militant group denied Sunday that it had killed Cpl. Wassef Ali Hassoun, a day after statements attributed to the group on two Web sites said that the U.S. Marine had been beheaded.

The Ansar al-Sunna Army said on its Web site that it had not issued the statements and that there was "no basis of truth" in the reports of Hassoun's death.

The group's response left unclear whether Hassoun, 24, was still alive....

Brother doesn't believe marine would lie about disappearance

Mohamed Hassoun says he knows his brother -- and that's how he knows Marine Corporal Wassef Ali Hassoun's disappearance wasn't a hoax....

Mohamed Hassoun told reporters outside his Utah home that the best description he can give of his brother is that he is a US Marine -- implying the corporal would never lie about a disappearance. He says he's angry about the rumors -- saying this isn't the time to question his family's loyalty.

Missing Marine at U.S. Embassy in Lebanon

U.S. Marine Cpl. Wassef Ali Hassoun, who disappeared from his unit in Iraq last month and was depicted on a videotape as having been captured by insurgents, arrived Thursday evening at the U.S. Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, the State Department said.

"He made contact with us and arranged a place to meet, and we went to pick him up [in Beirut] and brought him back to the embassy," said State Department spokesman Richard Boucher. Pentagon sources said it took three tries to arrange a meeting.

 

[Pliablemoose]

That's a really unusual case...

Don't know what to think about it, need more data.

 

[Aimster]

Sounds to me like he left his post and then he got kidnapped. It would be very hard for him to go to Lebanon without knowing anyone. The fact that his items were found where they were makes his claim that he was kidnapped seem more real. An insurgent will kill any american soldier if they had the chance, especially a Muslim who is fighting for the U.S.

 

[rickn]

I think his whole story is phoney. He has his head, that's enough to make me believe his story is bogus

 

[drewshin]

how many u.s. soldiers have been kidnapped or captured and how many have died?
i think so far there has only been one soldier, and there have been nothing certain about whether he is alive or dead.

just because he has his head doesnt mean the story is bogus. if he was a traitor, why go through and make up a story and act about being kidnapped? wouldnt he be much more useful still as a marine and gathering information?

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

Originally posted by: Pliablemoose
That's a really unusual case...

Don't know what to think about it, need more data.

If I have told you once, I have told you a hundred times. Stop making sense!

 

[Pliablemoose]

Originally posted by: WinstonSmith

Originally posted by: Pliablemoose
That's a really unusual case...

Don't know what to think about it, need more data.

If I have told you once, I have told you a hundred times. Stop making sense!

The whole thing is so strange & strange stuff happens in a war, I'm not ready to call him a traitor.

 

[EagleKeeper]

Originally posted by: drewshin
how many u.s. soldiers have been kidnapped or captured and how many have died?
i think so far there has only been one soldier, and there have been nothing certain about whether he is alive or dead.

just because he has his head doesnt mean the story is bogus. if he was a traitor, why go through and make up a story and act about being kidnapped? wouldnt he be much more useful still as a marine and gathering information?

My original thought is that he saw an opportunity to bail-out and took it.

Second thoughts then prevailed and a story was crafted that could be difficult to disprove.


However, I have to give him the benifit of the doubt until NCIS can provided something different as long as it does not look like a frame-up (re IOWA).

 

[Ozoned]

Marine Charged With Desertion Disappears Again

 

[CADsortaGUY]

Originally posted by: Ozoned
Marine Charged With Desertion Disappears Again

Sounds like a good plan for someone who claims he isn't a deserter. I know the first thing I'd do if I was accused of something - do it again! Even if he didn't do it the first time - he isn't making it look good by doing this.

CsG