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2004-12-09 Iraq-Jordan

Marine 'hostage' to be charged with desertion

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Posted by Rafael 2004-12-09 8:08:35 PM|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 "When Hassoun last spoke with military investigators in September and was read his rights, he refused to divulge details of the events surrounding his disappearance."

Ah, the first confirmation (I've seen) of that as a fact. Yep. Lock his ass up and toss the key. The whole thing stank like a festering jihadi before - and now it deserves the hobnail boots. I'm pretty sure they won't execute him, but it would not cause me to lose sleep if they went that route. Big rocks meet little rocks. Fuck off Hussein, you're a disgrace to the uniform and to the real Americans who do their duty.

Posted by .com 2004-12-09 8:23:18 PM|| 2004-12-09 8:23:18 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 Hope he likes snow, cause I hear they get a lot of it at Leavenworth.

Posted by Mrs. Davis 2004-12-09 8:33:38 PM|| 2004-12-09 8:33:38 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 Correct! I was floored when this had happened
and he will get what is coming to him- or what goes around comes around.

Andrea Jackson

Posted by Andrea Jackson 2004-12-09 8:54:09 PM|| 2004-12-09 8:54:09 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 .com - spot on. I knew in my gut as soon as this came out that this guy went over the hill. "When Hassoun last spoke with military investigators in September and was read his rights, he refused to divulge details of the events surrounding his disappearance."

-I've been the investigating officer into a number of cases of weird shit, usually pleading the fifth to investigators is a dead giveaway that you're guilty.

Posted by Jarhead 2004-12-09 9:18:35 PM|| 2004-12-09 9:18:35 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 I was just wondering what this will do to those who hyphenate themselves as Arab-Americans in the military who are doing their jobs. Those who know them personally, won't even think about it - I never even thought to connect such dots about someone who was covering my ass and doing a bang-up job of it, but others who don't know them may begin to doubt them, keep them out of sensitive areas or fights - marginalize them. And that sucks. Good people. Bad people. Screw the other damned bullshit labels. We used to laugh that we didn't care if someone was a green-haired middle-armed trisexual from Mars - the only question was if they could cut it...

Posted by .com 2004-12-09 9:29:32 PM|| 2004-12-09 9:29:32 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 He feels it's more important to be a good moose limb than a Marine. Not a problem you can be a moose limb in federal pound me in the ass prison for 20 years.

Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2004-12-09 9:37:28 PM|| [http://www.slhess.com] 2004-12-09 9:37:28 PM|| Front Page Top

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