Posted on 02/23/2015 3:44:10 PM PST by NRx
A Marine who vanished from his military base in Iraq in 2004 and was later shown in captivity in a video on Islamist militant Web sites was found guilty on Monday of desertion after spending most of the past decade in Lebanon.
Cpl. Wassef Ali Hassoun, 34, was found guilty of deserting with intent to avoid hazardous duty and desertion with intent to remain away permanently, said Marine Capt. Stewart Coles, a spokesman at Camp Lejeune, N.C., where the trial took place. Hassoun also was found guilty of losing government property — a 9mm M9 pistol that authorities said he had when he disappeared.
The Marine was sentenced to two years in prison, a reduction in rank to private, forfeiture of all pay and allowances and a dishonorable discharge, Coles said. Hassoun faced up to 7½ years of confinement.
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Guilty of desertion?
Is Obama going to award him with a Silver Star for it?
Has MSNBC hired him yet?
Where is that sorry piece of crap we traded for 5 Taliban terrorist leaders ? Bergdahl? He is being hidden. They still won’t let him see his isis loving father?
But Sergeant Bergdahl will receive back pay, 100% disability, POW benefits and all that jazz, right?
I remember they shot a guy in WWII for less than that.
“Only two years?”
Setting up Bergdahl for a promotion and a ticker tape parade.
The regime probably would have let him off scot free if he had killed a Crusader before he deserted.
Ah yes, “Our Diversity Is Our Strength.”
Only 2 years? I would kill the SOB had he been one of my troops. Obama and Holder have made our military” WEAK KNEED WHIMPS.”
Bergdahl may get a surprise if he is set free. US Infantry troops do not go for this BS.
This is in preparation for giving P.o.s. bergdahl a similar slap on the wrist.
We used to shoot people for desertion.
Notice the name: Wassef Ali Hassoun.
I’ll bet that *this* punk’s parents never got an invite to the WH.
Amish, right? </sarc>
Pvt Eddie Slovik. Execution for desertion authorized by Gen Eisenhower.
AND SHOULD STILL.
Well, get the hell on with it. Why the delay? His entire unit is ready to testify. Have we collectively lost our damned minds?
This guy showed up AFTER Bowe Bergdahl, and we find out his fate before Bergdahl?
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