{"id":54162,"date":"2014-07-25T08:57:46","date_gmt":"2014-07-25T12:57:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=54162"},"modified":"2014-07-25T08:04:26","modified_gmt":"2014-07-25T12:04:26","slug":"wassef-ali-hassoun-charged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=54162","title":{"rendered":"Wassef Ali Hassoun charged"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=52630\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-52630\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Wassef-Ali-Hassoun-300x198.jpeg\" alt=\"040714-M-0074F-031\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-52630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Wassef-Ali-Hassoun-300x198.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Wassef-Ali-Hassoun-500x331.jpeg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.marinecorpstimes.com\/article\/20140724\/NEWS06\/307240059\/Marines-file-charges-against-corporal-suspected-deserting-twice\">The Marine Corps Times<\/a> reports that Corporal Wassef Ali Hassoun has been charged by the Corps with desertion, destruction of government property, and larceny for the time in 2004 when he was deployed to Iraq as an interpreter and disappeared;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> At the time, Hassoun\u2019s family claimed he was abducted\u2014a claim that appeared to be corroborated when the Al -Jazeera news network broadcast a photo of Hassoun blindfolded, with a man holding a sword behind his head.<\/p>\n<p>But Hassoun contacted U.S. officials in Beirut, Lebanon nearly a month after his disappearance, and was recovered by the Marine Corps at the American Embassy in Beirut. After he was returned to Camp Lejeune and the Marines completed an investigation, Hassoun was charged with loss of government property and stealing a military weapon, having left base with his 9 mm pistol and a Humvee.<\/p>\n<p>Hassoun disappeared a second time in December 2004. He had been granted permission to visit relatives in Utah on leave, and did not return.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hassoun reappeared and turned himself in last month, and now faces an investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Marine Corps Times reports that Corporal Wassef Ali Hassoun has been charged by the Corps &hellip; <a title=\"Wassef Ali Hassoun charged\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=54162\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Wassef Ali Hassoun charged<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52630,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[184],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-marine-corps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54162\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/52630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}