July 07, 2004

Hassoun May Be in Lebanon

The brother of a Marine captured in Iraq denied reports Wednesday that he had been released and contacted family members, but a U.S. official said there was reason to believe the corporal was in his native Lebanon.

I haven't blogged this before because it's such a strange story...
Hassoun supposedly came to America from Lebanon after 9/11 and joined the Marines soon after.
It's still not clear how or why he went missing from his post in Iraq and some of the buzz has it that he "defected" to the Enemy side because of his Muslim and pro-Arab sympathies, although the Marines are giving him the benefit of the doubt and classifying him as "captured."
Given that's true, then his Islamofascist "brothers" apparently turned on him, instead of receiving him with open arms and that was when they threatened to execute him, probably for "collaborating" with the infidel.
The Marines sent the jihadis a letter telling them that there would be serious payback if Hassoun was harmed and after the recent beheadings of Nick Berg and Paul Johnson, the American public was fairly outraged at the possibility of another
American-affiliated man being beheaded on TV.
So, the insurgents let him go and that brings us to his possible re-appearance in his native Lebanon (Syria's satellite and a minor member of the Axis of Evil).
Can't wait to hear what all this was really about.

Update: Now Drudge and NBC want to know if the story's a hoax, too...Hmmm.