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 Sun Jun 27, 2004 7:07 pm U.S. Military Confirms Marine Missing+YOUR solution to Iraq |
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U.S. Military Confirms Marine Missing
Sunday, June 27, 2004
BAGHDAD, Iraq � A Marine has been missing from his unit in Iraq (search) for nearly a week but it is unclear whether he has been taken hostage, the U.S. command said Monday.
The announcement came after the Arab satellite television network Al-Jazeera broadcast a videotape purportedly of a Marine taken hostage by a militant group threatening to behead him if the U.S. military did not release all prisoners in Iraq.
The tape showed a blindfolded, mustached man wearing a blindfold and displayed a Marine identification card. Al-Jazeera said the hostage was of Pakistani origin.
In the statement, the military said a corporal had been missing from his unit in the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force (search) since June 21. The statement said the Marine was of Lebanese descent.
"Contrary to press reports, however, Naval Criminal Investigative Services cannot confirm that Cpl. Wassef Ali Hassoun has been taken hostage," the statement said.
Earlier Sunday, a Pakistani driver was shown on a tape broadcast by a different Arab television station, Al-Arabiya. The hostage displayed an identification card issued by the U.S. firm Kellogg, Brown & Root, a subsidiary of Vice President Dick Cheney's (search) former company Halliburton.
Four masked men holding assault rifles across their chests said they would behead the Pakistani within three days unless Americans freed prisoners held at Abu Ghraib and three cities of central Iraq -- Balad, Dujail and Samarra.
The gunmen said they captured the Pakistani near the U.S. base at Balad, 50 miles north of Baghdad. They did not say whether they were affiliated with any group,
The hostage, who gave his name as Amjad, urged Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf (search) to close the Pakistani Embassy in Iraq and to ban Pakistanis from coming to Iraq.
"I'm also Muslim, but despite this they didn't release me," he said, bowing his head. "They are going to cut the head of any person regardless of whether he is a Muslim or not."
It was unclear how either set of kidnappers was linked to Jordanian terror mastermind Abu Musab al-Zarqawi (search), who claimed responsibility for the decapitation deaths of American businessman Nicholas Berg (search) and South Korean translator Kim Sun-il (search) last week.
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Also, the hand over in Iraq is just days away. Post what you think could be a solution to solve all of the problems.
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Puck
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I want Allawi (the Iraq Prime Minister) to be Saddam, but with another face. Saddam had many problems, but he had control. You need to be hard fisted just like before. If you hang a few killers, in my opinion, the problems on the street will just disappear.
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