'Kidnap' marine set to go home

The US Marine who mysteriously vanished in Iraq and reappeared in Lebanon nearly three weeks later is doing better in a US military hospital in Germany and will probably return home within a few days.

Corporal Wassef Ali Hassoun is being debriefed at Landstuhl Regional Medical Centre by intelligence specialists, psychologists, physicians and a Muslim chaplain, who are hoping to learn more of his ordeal, said Marine spokesman Major Tim Keefe.