Gunbattle Near U.S. Marine Hassoun's Lebanon Home

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TRIPOLI, Lebanon (Reuters) - A gunbattle erupted Thursday near the family home of a Lebanese-born U.S. Marine who had been missing in Iraq (news - web sites), killing at least two people and wounding several others, witnesses said.


Relatives of Wassef Ali Hassoun, who arrived at the U.S. embassy in Beirut Thursday, traded fire with another family who taunted them by referring to the Marine and his family as U.S. agents, said the witnesses.


The gunbattle occurred in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli.


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[AlCzervik]

1. This story just keeps getting stranger and stranger

[hlthe2b]

2. This guy is truly going to be a man without a country (and now so too

will be his entire family). I don't know yet how to come down on all this, but I do know that we are not getting the truth, or at least the whole truth.

[James T. Kirk]

3. There's a joke about "to the shores of Tripoli" in there somewhere.

[NewYorkerfromMass]

5. You good captain. Tres bien!

As the Marines do sing....

"From the Halls of Montezuma, To the shores of Tripoli..."

http://www.countrygoldusa.com/marines_hymn.asp

[James T. Kirk]

6. I predict he'll be in Mexico next!

[Zynx]

4. Lebanon Clan Shootout

Lovely. But not exactly unusal for that part of the world.

"You insulted my honor!"

"God willing I did, you dog!"

BAMBAMBAMBAMBAMBAMBAMBAM

"Hey, fights over. Let's go kill Israelis."

"Ok."