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To: TobagoJack who wrote (51258)	7/9/2004 3:16:40 AM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 74559

DJ/Jay: <<abduction could have been a hoax>>. They are getting creative, those guys! Marine turns up Mystery remains By AP BEIRUT, Lebanon -- A U.S. marine whose disappearance in Iraq sparked contradictory claims that he was kidnapped and beheaded turned up alive yesterday and was at the U.S. Embassy in his native Lebanon. The navy was investigating whether his abduction could have been a hoax. Cpl. Wassef Ali Hassoun, reported missing from his base near the troubled city of Fallujah 18 days ago, contacted U.S. officials who arranged to pick him up yesterday afternoon in Beirut, State Department spokesman Richard Boucher said in Washington. At nearly the same time, a gunfight broke out between members of Hassoun's clan in his home city of Tripoli and business rivals who called them American collaborators because Hassoun joined the marines. Two people were killed. Confusion had surrounded the fate of the 24-year-old, Lebanese-born Hassoun since a dramatic videotape broadcast on Arab television June 27 showed him with his eyes covered by a white blindfold and a sword hanging over his head. Meanwhile, Militants in Iraq threatened in a videotape broadcast yesterday to kill two Bulgarian hostages within 24 hours unless U.S.-led forces freed prisoners. There was no immediate comment from Bulgarian officials, and it was not clear whether the captive Bulgarians were military personnel or civilians. The Philippines yesterday barred contract workers, the backbone of the U.S. military's support staff in Iraq, from coming here after militants threatened to kill a Filipino hostage. The hostage was abducted near the city of Fallujah, west of Baghdad