by The.Duke » Wed Jul 07, 2004 2:34 am
Kidnapped US Marine is released
TRIPOLI, Lebanon: A Lebanese-born US Marine missing in Iraq and once feared beheaded by Islamist captors has been freed, the Lebanese foreign ministry and one of his brothers said yesterday.
"We have received a call that reassured us. My brother is alive and has been freed," said Sami Hassoun, who lives in this northern Leb-anese city, of his brother, Corporal Wassef Ali Hassoun.
"We don't know where he is. We are looking forward to seeing him, but we don't know when," he said.
Sami is in permanent telephone contact with his elder brother Mohammed, an engineer in the western US state of Utah.
Lebanon's foreign ministry said its embassy in Iraq had informed Beirut that the Marine "was in a safe place," but gave no further details.
The.Duke