Now this is interesting. Al-Jazeera is reporting that Cpl. Wassef Ali Hassoun has not been killed, and won’t be since he has pledged to leave the Armed Forces.
It is likely that they gave him this option because of his Islamic faith, since the Qur’an forbids Muslims to kill fellow Muslims intentionally (see Sura 4:93). This from the Washington Times:
An Iraqi Islamist group said it had moved abducted U.S. Marine Cpl. Wassef Ali Hassoun to “a place of safety” after he pledged not to return to the American armed forces, Al Jazeera television network said yesterday. …
The Islamic Response Movement did not say where Lebanese-born Cpl. Hassoun had been taken, only that he had been moved to a “place of safety,” Al Jazeera said.