Posted on 07/10/2004 2:32:26 AM PDT by kattracks
July 10, 2004 -- WASHINGTON — Marine Cpl. Wassef Ali Hassoun is believed to have made phone calls during the period he went missing in Iraq — raising serious doubts among investigators about whether he was kidnapped by terrorists, military officials said yesterday. In the latest twist to an increasingly bizarre story, U.S. intelligence agencies, which have extensive listening posts in Iraq, picked up a handful of cellphone conversations involving a man investigators believe was Hassoun. The calls were made before and shortly after he went missing, military officials familiar with the investigation said.
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I read the article.
How stupid would one have to be,
to try pulling something like
this???
'How stupid would one have to be'
The guy is stupid enough to be a Muslim. Anybody that stupid could do something this stupid.
Even stupider would be for an employer to entrust security with him.
Oops, guess all those people angrily demanding apologies from those of us asking questions about this guy were wrong. Next time, they ought to pick up on the fact that he was a Muslim, maybe?
Treason and stupidity often go hand in hand.
This muslim went "missing" the same day that 4 Marine snipers were executed on their rooftop position. I'd like to know what this POS knew about that - the coincidence is too much to overlook. As a translator, he may have been in a position to have known where this team would be and relay that info to the enemy (if not actually have been with that team and participated in their murder).
Theadore "Beaver" Cleaver and Larry Mondello came up with better game plans than this idiot.
OK, how many cell phone do you think are operating in theater? ALOT!!! This is needle in a haystack. Very scary to think that they can pull a cell phone call from literally thin (depending on pressure, LOL!) air. Yeah, echelon is tin-foil!
How many files are on your computer? Go to win explorer and press F3 and search for a file. Now that did not take long, did it?
I realize that the search methods are different, but with current computer speeds and search methods, you can find a needle in a haystack.
You made the point I did; if the
article is right, he's suspected
of pretending he was held under
threat of beheading, to cover -
NOT Treason - but running away
to Lebanon to stay with family.
COVER???
Like the video of him under the
sword of Zarqawi(supposedly) was
gonna cause America to drop his
case???
Any dufus would know this would
make him Priority One.
And using a cell phone? With all
our eavsdropping capability???
A Marine pulling this? Get out!!
That would only be true if their command knew exactly where they were going to be set up at and they told him exactly where they were going, sniper teams don't work that way.
More likely They were caught because they were in an urban enviroment where the traditional sniper camouflage aka a gilly suit wasn't as effective.
But don't let that stop you from continuing to echo that bit of scuttlebutt.
I know this one thing..He turned himself in..Why?...He had family in Lebanon..I'm not ready to indict him for anything until the Marines decide what to do with him and find out the facts....
(....sniper team executed) IIRC, Marines use a shooter, a spotter and a security team of two to four. The ST covers the angles the shooter and spotter are not concentrating on. If they were shot from behind.....and this guy was anywhere around?
OK, how many cell phone do you think are operating in the theater at he same time. Not many. I may be wrong but doesn't the military collect all US cell phone calls for satalite transmissaion to the US?
OK, how many cell phone do you think are operating in the theater at he same time. Not many. I may be wrong but doesn't the military collect all US cell phone calls for satalite transmissaion to the US?
Turned himself in is perhaps a bad choice of words, as soon as he was freed he contacted the US Embassy to return to duty.
Had this been an actual desertion or a hoax that would have been the last thing a deserter would have done, and in order to drive home that point I would point out that there was a similiar case of a Marine deserter that lived in Viet Nam for I believe seventeen years and was actually list as a MIA for those seventeen years before finally turning himself in.
This story with it's vague references to unknown sources isn't really about the facts it's about planting seeds of doubt, I'll wait for the facts thank you.
We should hve learned by now not to trust translators.
Okay. This is information I really could have spent the rest of my life not knowing. Unfortunately, we no longer have that luxury of being selectively informed.
I hope his head falls off before he lands back in the States.
As a translator he would have been knee deep in documents and not listening to OUR radios for calls from sniper teams that they don't make while they are in position.
Robert Garwood was that Marine deserter I was talking about and even to this day the story of what really happened with him hasn't been fully explained.
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