Until then, I don't want to deal with any "take my word for it" or any speculation.
As I wrote on July 20:
I believe that this Marine was given a difficult and dangerous assignment and performed his duties as best he could, and survived on his own resourcefulness when his Marine leadership may well have abandoned him to "fate."
Just what IF this Marine was given a hard time in the Corps because he was a foreign born Muslim, and given an impossible assignment to prove his loyalty - then is taken captive? What would the Marines do?
Maybe they would release statements trying to distance themselves from him - letting it be assumed that he may have switched sides, then when he was inevitably beheaded they would have a clear warning issued to ALL Muslim servicemen that they desert at great personal risk. Perhaps that was the best outcome they could hope for.
But then the Marine somehow survives and talks his captors into releasing him back to his homeland rather than to his unit where he would fight them again. He then lets his location be known and he has valuable information for the Marines, who did not expect to ever see him again.
How would the Marines react? What can they say?