U.S. Marine Meets With Family in Beirut (Hassoun)

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This Hassoun thing is some weird shit.



A U.S. Marine who vanished in a reported kidnapping in Iraq and resurfaced in Beirut more than two weeks later left for a U.S. military base in Germany on Friday, Lebanese officials said.

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The Navy was investigating whether the abduction of Hassoun — who at one point was reported to be beheaded by his captors — could have been a hoax.


The 24-year-old Lebanese-American disappeared from his base near the restive Iraqi city of Fallujah. On Thursday, he arranged for American officials to pick him up in Beirut and take him to the U.S. Embassy in Beirut, State Department spokesman Richard Boucher said in Washington.

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Also Thursday, a gunfight broke out between members of Hassoun's clan in his home city of Tripoli and business rivals who called them American collaborators because Hassoun joined the Marines. Two people were killed.



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