Marine Wasef Hassoun: I Did Not Desert

From CNN:

 U.S. Marine translator once reported captured in Iraq denied he had deserted and urged fellow Marines in Iraq to "keep their heads up and their spirits high." "I did not desert my post. I was captured and held against my will by anti-coalition forces for 19 days," Cpl. Wassef Ali Hassoun said Monday. His disappearance is being investigated, but the Navy's Criminal Investigative Service has not yet questioned him, a Marine Corps spokesman said.