Maybe Wassef Ali Hassoun isn’t dead. From AP, :
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) – The fate of a U.S. Marine held hostage in Iraq remained in question on Monday after an Iraqi guerrilla group denied beheading Cpl. Wassef Ali Hassoun.
The denial Sunday gave new hope to Hassoun’s relatives just when there appeared to be none.
The Ansar al-Sunna Army posted the denial on its Web site in response to reports by the Lebanese Foreign Ministry that the group had killed Hassoun.
Ansar al-Sunna said the statement announcing Hassoun’s death “has no basis of truth.” It added that “any statement that is not issued through our site doesn’t represent us.”
Lebanon reported Hassoun’s death after another extremist Web sites posted a statement that claimed he had been killed. The declaration was posted yesterday in the name of Ansar al-Sunna.