[Bobby777]

this is going to be quite the interesting story before it's all over I should think ...

[Bobby777]

Cpl. Wassef Ali Hassoun arrives at a Marine base in Virginia.

[BunnySlippers]

It might depend on how much information he gave the CIA.

[hatfieldmccoy]

Okay, I'm I the only guy on the planet that thinks this whole thing is a bizzare fraud? Jeez let's add this mystery to Johnson's body then no body in SA. The Middle East is the new Bermuda Triangle of truth. Freeps I'm sensing a pattern that is not good news for the truth.

[exhaustedmomma]

The process is standard for military personnel who have been captured or detained during service abroad, Marine Corps officials said. *snip* Officials have said that Naval investigators were looking at a range of possibilities, including reports that he was kidnapped, deserted his unit or staged an elaborate hoax with the aid of Iraqis.

What is the standard process for deserters, &/or staging a hoax? Seems to me it would be different from being captured or detained.

[TheCrusader]

One thing for certain; he wasn't released because he was a fellow muslim like the media are suggesting. The terrorists in Iraq kill their fellow muslims every day with impunity; anyone whom they deem the "enemy" is a target, whether Iraqi police, politician or American sypmathizer. A captured U.S. Marine is a big trophy for these hooded cockroaches, and I doubt they'd ever release him as some sort of goodwill gesture. There is MUCH more to this story than meets the eye.

[F16Fighter]

Corporal Hassoun will be debriefed by psychologists and military intelligence officials. He will also have access to military lawyers and will be able to see his family, officials said, but "his movements will be controlled."

IOW, Hassoun will be interrogated, be given his legal rights being being tossed into a Leavenworth brig, then told to say goodbye to his family for a looog time.

[Cate]

This dude is lucky that one of his fellow 'soldiers' didn't shove him out of the plane over the ocean. Again, an example of how by the book the USA is. If he was a citizen of another country, he wouldn't be out walking among the living.

[Timm]

Just to state the obvious, the Marine Corps smells a rat here. Typically, a released POW gets to sit in front of the flag and talk to the press all day about how glad his mom is he's back safe. Here, we just get a spokesman explaining that a "repatriation process" is underway. Uh huh. Presumably that's just code for "incarcaration and interrogation".

But what will they discover? It *will* be interesting to hear what comes of all this, that's for sure.