Missing US marine 'safe in Lebanon'

The US has “credible information” that US marine Corporal Wassef Ali Hassoun who went missing in Iraq is safe in his native Lebanon.

But Elizabeth Wharton, public affairs officer at the US Embassy in Beirut, said it could not confirm the information that it had received about the fate of 24-year-old Hassoun, who went missing in Iraq more than two weeks ago.