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THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
QUANTICO, Va. — Cpl. Wassef AH Hassoun,
the Marine who disappeared under mysterious
circumstances while on duty in Iraq, insisted on
Monday that he was captured by insurgents and
that he is still a loyal Marine.
“I did not desert my post,” he told reporters out
side Quantico Marine Corps Base. “I was captured
and held against my will by anti-coalition forces
for 19 days. This was a very difficult and challeng
ing time for me.”
He did not answer any questions during his
brief appearance. He was joined by his brother,
who arrived from Utah.
“I would like to tell all the Marines as well
as all those others serving in Iraq to keep their
heads up and spirits high. Once a Marine,
always a Marine, Semper Fi,” Hassoun said,
invoking the Marine Corps motto, Latin for
“always faithful.”
Marine spokesman Lt. Col. Dave Lapan said
the Marine Corps was not in a position to confirm
or refute Hassoun’s claim.
Hassoun, 24, of West Jordan, Utah, disappeared
June 20 from his base near the troubled Iraqi city
of Fallujah and turned up unharmed at the U.S.
Embassy in Beirut on July 8. It remains unclear
how he traveled from Iraq to Lebanon, where he
was bom and still has some relatives.
On June 27, Arab television showed a video
tape of a blindfolded Hassoun, a sword hanging
over his head. At one point during his disappear
ance, a group claiming to represent his captors
announced that he had been beheaded after being
lured from the base by a love affair.
The military is investigating whether the report
ed kidnapping was a hoax and whether the Muslim
Hassoun deserted his unit.
Hassoun is in the midst of what the Marines call
a “repatriation process" in which he is debriefed
and given time to decompress and avoid the media
spotlight, officials said.
Hassoun arrived at Quantico on Friday after six
days of medical evaluation at a military hospital
in Germany. In the coming days, he will leave
Quantico for Camp Lejeune, N.C., his home base,
Lapan said. He will continue the repatriation pro
cess there, Lapan said.
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convenient access to our office,”
Bresciani said.
Kathy DiSanto, an adminis
trative assistant who helped plan
the event, said being in a high-
traffic area is important.
“At the Office of the Vice
President of Student Affairs,
students are our main interest,”
DiSanto said. “We have an open
door policy and we want students
to feel comfortable in our office.”
The vice president for stu
dent affairs serves as a senior
administration officer of the
University and oversees several
departments focused on provid
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to students to promote success,
Bresciani said.
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ulty and staff will reference the
new location in their interactions
with students this summer.
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ible improvement in terms of
accessibility.”
There may be a similar event
held in the fall when more
students are on campus, but
nothing has been planned yet,
Kelley said.
“We want students to know
where we’re located so that they
can utilize services in student
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he held driven from Saudi Arabia into Iraq.
The fuel tanker attack on the police station
in the Seidiyeh neighborhood of Baghdad
took place just after 8 a.m., as police gathered
to receive their daily assignments.
“We were all standing in a row, listening
to our officer as he gave us our assignment
for the day,” said Mehdi Salah Abed Ali, 32,
lying in a bed at al-Yarmuk hospital with his
leg bandaged.
The police station was fenced in, and the
tanker exploded about 500 feet away in the
middle of the neighborhood. The attack killed
nine people and wounded at least 60, said
Saad al-Amili, a Health Ministry official.
The tanker’s presence in the industrial
area did not raise concerns until it started
speeding toward the police station, said
Ahmed Nouri, who works at a nearby
car wash.
“I was standing with a friend when we
saw the tanker speeding in an unnatural
way,” Nouri said, describing the driver as a
young man with a light beard.
After the attack, protesters gathered and
chanted, “Long live Saddam!” before police
dispersed them by firing in the air.
Militants have used near-constant car
bombs, sabotage, assassinations
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