{"id":58426,"date":"2015-02-24T16:57:34","date_gmt":"2015-02-24T21:57:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=58426"},"modified":"2015-02-24T17:24:03","modified_gmt":"2015-02-24T22:24:03","slug":"wassef-ali-hassoun-gets-two-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=58426","title":{"rendered":"Wassef Ali Hassoun gets two years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=58427\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-58427\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Wassef-Ali-Hassoun-300x218.jpg\" alt=\"Wassef Ali Hassoun\" width=\"300\" height=\"218\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-58427\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/us\/marine-who-vanished-in-iraq-found-guilty-of-desertion-gets-2-years-1.331219\">LA Times<\/a> reports that Wassef Ali Hassoun, the Marine who deserted his unit in Iraq and then jumped ship again once he got back to the States and was convicted of desertion yesterday was sentenced to two years today.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> A military judge at Camp Lejeune, N.C., found Marine Cpl. Wassef Ali Hassoun guilty of deserting his combat post in Fallujah, Iraq, in June 2004 and deserting his Marine unit at Camp Lejeune in January 2005. In both instances, Hassoun fled to his native Lebanon.<\/p>\n<p>Hassoun, 35, a naturalized American citizen, was also found guilty of causing the loss of his service-issue pistol, which he took with him during the 2004 disappearance.<\/p>\n<p>He was sentenced to just more than two years in jail \u2014 735 days \u2014 reduction in rank, forfeiture of pay and allowances, and a dishonorable discharge.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Still no word on Bowe Bergdahl&#8217;s fate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The LA Times reports that Wassef Ali Hassoun, the Marine who deserted his unit in Iraq &hellip; <a title=\"Wassef Ali Hassoun gets two years\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=58426\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Wassef Ali Hassoun gets two years<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58427,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[155],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-shitbags"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58426","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=58426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58426\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/58427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}