Terrible Irony: US hostage in Iraq trying to desert when captured?

[theivoryqueen]

This article says he was trying to walk home. Rhandi Rhodes just did a bit about it - all the news sources are saying different things.

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/special/iraq/2655160

[GreenPartyVoter]

1. Reuters and AP were saying "UA" earlier

[Media_Lies_Daily]

3. Evidently because some of the officers in his command structure...

...simply don't like Muslims.

[Democracy Died 2004]

9. UA

is unauthorized absence : less than 30 days
desertion is after 30 days.. I hope more walk away.. BTW screw the troops they support repugs by 80% so they got what they deserved.

[Media_Lies_Daily]

2. IMHO, if someone's trying to say that he was trying to go home...

...it's just another attempt to bash a Muslim-American in the military.

The military has classified him as captured...nothing more and nothing less. Anything else is bullshit.

[LiberalVoice]

4. Trying to go home my ass.

If he was trying to go back to Lebanon then don't you think he would find diffrent clothes then his U.S. MILITARY UNIFORM?! and if he did then how did the terroritsts know he was an american soldier?

[bluestateguy]

5. Sounds like a story for an Ann Coulter column

Another chance for her to attack Muslims as evil and disloyal, even if he is in captivity.

[theivoryqueen]

6. I do not know what to make of this story and it's many versions

Would the press reports be materially different if the hostage/abductee was white? Yes. It seems like the military would do everything it could to present a positive perspective out of sensitivity to the situation. But as for the other questions - several stories state the young man was emotionally distraught prior to his capture.

[thecrow]

7. Maybe they're trying to set it up

...so that they can say, "See? He was a deserter! That's what happens!" when he gets beheaded.
And what a terrible thing that would be.
Here he is, a Muslim fighting FOR THE US, probably bearing all sorts of bashing from his battalion (or whatever) and he gets digusted and deserts. And then he's captured.
Personally, I will pray for his safety.

[comsymp]

8. Bull

He was on his way to Alabama to work on a political campaign.