AWOL is not a possibility?
It's pretty obvious by now that this guy wanted out and schemed up his kidnapping. Find him and court martial him for desertion, 20 years hard labor!
This is certainly a strange story.
"Conclusion" and "may be" should not be used in the same sentence.
This is *almost* as wierd as the whole Nick Berg thing...
I wonder if our friend M. Moore has footage of interviews with this guy.
Your implied answer seems correct. His religion won over the USMC and his adopted country (USA). He is now a Jihadi.
Why wouldn't these terrorist kill him since he is considered an infidel to them. They kill their own people everyday for working for America. A Lebanese born, American Marine would be bonus points to them.
Pig's heads desecrate Muslim site
25-06-2004
By Ian Gerard
The Australian:
THE sight of pigs' heads impaled on wooden stakes greeted builders working on the construction of a Muslim prayer hall in Sydney's north yesterday morning.
Workers arrived shortly after 7am to find the four heads stuck on building pegs in front of the development.
Inside the hall, blood and offal and other body parts had been spread over three walls and the concrete floor.
The prayer hall, in the semi-rural suburb of Annangrove in Sydney's Hills District, is due to open in October after developers battled with residents and the local council to have it approved.
Labourer Adam Wade, one of the first at the site, said the building looked like the set of a Godfather movie.
"I think it's disgusting and deplorable, it's like walking into an office and finding a horse's head," he said.
Muslims are forbidden from eating or touching pigs or pig products under religious law.
Developer Abbas Aly, who could not enter the hall yesterday, said he was not surprised it had been vandalised. given the furore surrounding the site.
"It just highlights the lack of knowledge about the faith just to assume that because they did this we won't be able to use the building anymore," Mr Aly said.
The local council knocked back an application to build the prayer hall on the site in December 2002 after receiving more than 5000 objections from local residents.
However the NSW Land and Environment Court later reversed the decision on the grounds that the objections were not based on fact.
Mr Aly, whose family is from India, said construction of the prayer hall would go ahead despite the vandalism and local objections.
He said it was important for locals to realise the hall was not a mosque and would not hold large groups of people.
"There's about 40 other families in this area who come from the same sort of background and don't have anywhere close to go to," he said.
Mr Aly praised police for their help after the attack, saying officers helped builders clean up the mess.
Police said they had taken a number of items for forensic analysis and were talking to neighbours to see if anything was seen or heard in the area.
Hills Local Area Commander Superintendent Jim Hook said police would work with religious leaders to identify the vandals.
"Police will not tolerate attacks like this which are aimed to intimidate another section of the community," he said.
The NSW Muslim Council condemned the attack.
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STOP right there.
This (whatever) was supposedly "lured" away from his post and "captured."
Its very obvious to me there is something way wrong with this story.
I'm not buying the "kidnapped" angle at all. The guy was "kidnapped" then spirited to Lebanon?
I don't think so......
What is going on? This event made it clear we are in a holy war, and the Pentagon's conclusion is that this may be a hoax?
What is painfully clear is that nothing is clear and thus conclusions should not be jumped to.
The man has not been put on trial, at this point, nobody but he and the alleged kidnappers know what the real story is.
I'm content to wait until the Courts Martial (if there is one) to see what the verdict is.
He's innocent until P R O V E N guilty.
And he has not been proven guilty.