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2005-01-06 Home Front: WoT
Marine Missing Again
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Posted by tipper 2005-01-06 12:39:26 AM|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 Well, yesterday Steve posted that NBC had "tracked" Hassoun to Canada and then to Lebanon. Sooo...

Looks like he won't be needing his military attorney anymore, much less a civilian one. Gee, ya think the delay "to hire a civilian lawyer" was a ruse? Who'da thunk it?
Posted by .com 2005-01-06 5:34:22 AM||   2005-01-06 5:34:22 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Fox News reporting Hassoun's ATM card was used in Canada and several hours later (flight time) in Lebanon. Apparently, his American passport was left in Iraq when he went missing, the government has that. But he also has a valid Lebanese passport. Guess he used that. They also report that his wife left for Lebanon yesterday, her visa ran out. His family in Lebanon is supposted to be wealthy and providing him with protection.
Fox also reported that the Syrians want to talk to Hassoun, something about how he got to Lebanon from Iraq without the Syrian goverment knowing about it. Yeah, right. More likely they want to shut him up. Reportedly, the Syrians firebombed one of his families houses. Developing.
Posted by Steve  2005-01-06 8:46:13 AM||   2005-01-06 8:46:13 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 From CNN: Investigators have found evidence that Hassoun has fled the United States for Lebanon, where he turned up in July after his disappearance from an American base in western Iraq, Pentagon officials told CNN. Hassoun's family told military officials that he had left Utah, where he was on leave, four days before he was to return to Camp Lejeune.
But Hassoun is now believed to have taken money out of the bank and changed his flight destination from North Carolina to Canada, where he booked a flight to Lebanon, where he was born and has relatives, Marine Corps officials said.
Marine officials said Wednesday that he was not believed to be a flight risk because he had turned himself in after initially disappearing from Iraq. In addition, the Marines had let him go on leave to Utah two times before he was charged, and he had shown no sign that he would try to flee.
Military investigators charged him with desertion and theft of government property -- a military vehicle and his service weapons -- after U.S. troops found his civilian passport, military ID card and uniform during the siege of Falluja in November.
Posted by Steve  2005-01-06 9:29:36 AM||   2005-01-06 9:29:36 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 good riddance. Don't let the screen door hit ya and thanks for saving me the tax dollars on your prison cell.
Posted by 2b 2005-01-06 9:38:26 AM||   2005-01-06 9:38:26 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 
Marine officials said Wednesday that he was not believed to be a flight risk because he had turned himself in after initially disappearing from Iraq. In addition, the Marines had let him go on leave to Utah two times before he was charged, and he had shown no sign that he would try to flee.

With these Middle Eastern types, never make assumptions and never, EVER, let your guard down.
Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2005-01-06 11:23:31 AM||   2005-01-06 11:23:31 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 Assign the file to the wetworks.
Posted by Mrs. Davis 2005-01-06 11:33:47 AM||   2005-01-06 11:33:47 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 If the Syrians torched some relatives house, then maybe he got the hint to not talk to the US authorities any more.

Speaking of loyal citizens, how is that trial of the grenade-into-tent tossing a-hole going?
Posted by Laurence of the Rats  2005-01-06 11:50:42 AM|| [http://www.punictreachery.com/]  2005-01-06 11:50:42 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 Don't fear. We take care of our own rogues. We do have them every 30 or 40 years or so. Hey remember, we are not perfect either!

Semper Fe!
Posted by leaddog2  2005-01-06 1:14:14 PM||   2005-01-06 1:14:14 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 Sounds like "Where in the World is Waldo?"
Posted by John Q. 2005-01-06 3:30:35 PM||   2005-01-06 3:30:35 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 Hey, kid? Wanna be in a movie?
Posted by O. Stone, Artiste 2005-01-06 4:40:57 PM||   2005-01-06 4:40:57 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 It was only a matter of time before this idiot went over the hill again. I would have loved to have been on that first investigation of how/why he got kidnapped in Iraq and ended up in Lebanon no worse for the wear. If he does get caught, shoot him.
Posted by Jarhead 2005-01-06 5:30:01 PM||   2005-01-06 5:30:01 PM|| Front Page Top

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