Ten years ago, in June 2004, Marine Cpl. Wassef Ali Hassoun disappeared from his base in Fallujah, Iraq. Within days he appeared in a poorly-staged hostage video, and within a month he mysteriously showed up unharmed at the U.S. embassy in Beirut. After a five month investigation back in the United States, military prosecutors accused Hassoun of faking his kidnapping and charged him with desertion and theft of a Humvee, which he allegedly used to drive off his base in Fallujah.
In Jan. 2005, Hassoun fled the U.S.
through Canada, returned to Lebanon where he was born, and the Marines
charged him with a second count of desertion. Ten years later,
Hassoun turned himself into NCIS investigators in Bahrain. Officials say
Hassoun is willing to return to the U.S. because he reportedly fears
for his life in Lebanon.
As my father used to say, fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me.
Am I the only one that thinks justice will be best served by leaving his butt in Lebanon? Besides, do we really want this ------- inside the United States?
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