Perhaps we shall soon see if he really deserts, as his Muslim captors wanted him to. From CNN:
WEST JORDAN, Utah (CNN) — Marine Cpl. Wassef Hassoun called his family Wednesday to tell them he is safe and in Lebanon, a source close to his family told CNN.
The source said Hassoun contacted the family in West Jordan, Utah, and Lebanon and told them that he had called the U.S. Embassy in Beirut and asked that he be picked up from an undisclosed location in Lebanon. The source said Hassoun sounded healthy and happy….
On Monday, a group claiming to have kidnapped Wassef Hassoun said it had taken him to safety, Al-Jazeera reported.
He “has been sent to a safe place after he had announced his forgiveness and his determination not to go back to the U.S. forces,” said the group — which calls itself “Islamic Response,” the security wing of the Islamic Resistance of Iraq — in a statement faxed to Al-Jazeera and posted on the network’s Web site.
Earlier reports on other Islamist Web sites said Hassoun had been beheaded.