Marine's family pray for his release
The family of a US marine taken hostage in Iraq and threatened with beheading has asked people around the world to pray for his safe return.
The family of Corporal Wassef Ali Hassoun issued a brief statement confirming a hostage videotaped in Iraq was the missing soldier, who is of Middle Eastern origin.
“In the name of Allah, the merciful, the compassionate, we accept destiny with its good and its bad,” Hassoun family friend and spokesman Tarek Nosseir said outside the family’s home in Utah.
“We pray and we plead for his safe release and we ask all people of the world to join us in our prayers. May God bless us all.”
The US military said Hassoun was of Lebanese descent.
Judy Hassoun, Wassef’s former sister-in-law, said by telephone from Bacliff, Texas, that Hassoun was serving his second stint in Iraq. She had not seen Wassef in about five years.
Wassef moved to the Salt Lake City area and joined the Marines after moving there.
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