WTF
Looks like he’s gone for good this time:
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Marine Cpl. Wassef Ali Hassoun, charged with desertion in a mysterious case in which he left his unit in Iraq and turned up in Lebanon, has again gone absent and appears to have returned to Lebanon, officials said on Wednesday.
The U.S. military has tracked records from bank machines indicating that Hassoun made his way to Canada and then back to Lebanon, the country of his birth, said a U.S. official, speaking on condition of anonymity. The Marine Corps formally declared him a deserter on Wednesday.
Hassoun’s name has now been placed on the FBI’s National Crime Information Center database, which would allow local and state police to identify whether people they stop for routine infractions were wanted fugitives, Morgan said.
Morgan said Hassoun’s original passport was lost in Iraq. Hassoun had been issued a temporary replacement, but was forced to surrender it, Morgan said.
“To the best of our knowledge, he did not have a passport,” Morgan said.
Any bets on what Islamist terror group this guy’s eventually going to turn up in the company of? Ordinarily I would be pretty circumspect about speculating so wildly, but if Hassoun’s going around crossing international borders without a valid passport…well, just like his last AWOL episode, the whole thing kind of smells, y’know? There’s more to this one than we’re currently hearing about, I think.
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