Family of Marine Shown in Hostage Video Asks for Prayers

[CShine]

WEST JORDAN, Utah (AP) - The family of a Marine taken hostage in Iraq and threatened with beheading has asked people around the world to pray for his safe return.

The family of Cpl. Wassef Ali Hassoun issued a brief statement late Sunday confirming that 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. "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."

In the video, the hostage had a white blindfold covering his eyes. He wore military fatigues, and his mustache was trimmed. The U.S. military said Hassoun was of Lebanese descent.

http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGB651E40WD.html

[Sugarbleus]

1. Thank you for this post...I barely heard of it....I will do my

part.............................

[montana_hazeleyes]

2. while

the people who started all this horror laugh it up in their suits and tuxedos at big luxury dinners and 1500.00$ a night rooms.:grr:

They don't care, they don't care at all.

[othermeans]

3. Guess what Bush's reply to this was?

When asked if the taking of hostages had cast a pall over his little summit meeting in Ireland he turned to the reporter with a puzzled look (what other look does he have?) and said "No"

[tkmorris]

4. Typical Bush

He simply........doesn't.......care.