Remember this guy?
Apparently his getaway didn’t work out very well:
‘Abducted’ Marine’s desertion charge
A US Marine who was reported abducted in Iraq and later turned up in his native Jordan was charged today with desertion.
Corporal Wassef Ali Hassoun was charged following a five month investigation into his June disappearance from a US military camp near Fallujah, Iraq, according a statement from the 4th Marine Expeditionary Brigade.
Corporal Hassoun, of West Jordan, Utah, is accused of taking unauthorised leave from the unit where he served as an Arabic interpreter.
He is also is charged with the loss of government property and the theft of a military firearm for allegedly leaving the Marine camp while still in possession of his 9mm service pistol, as well as theft and wrongful appropriation of a government vehicle.
UPDATE: An alert reader points out that Hassoun is a native of Lebanon, not Jordan.