Formerly Missing Marine Says He Did Not Desert Post

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QUANTICO, Va. -- A U.S. Marine who disappeared in Iraq and resurfaced nearly three weeks later in Lebanon insists that he did not desert.

Cpl. Wassef Ali Hassoun told reporters at a Marine base in Virginia that he had been captured.

Hassoun spoke Monday afternoon and a Marine official then discussed Hassoun's repatriation process.

Hassoun vanished June 20 from his base near the troubled Iraqi city of Fallujah and reappeared earlier this month at the U.S. Embassy in Beirut.

It is not clear how Hassoun made the journey, and during the three weeks he was missing various conflicting reports emerged about him -- first that he was beheaded, then that he was alive.

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This article doesn't have his quotes but it's breaking on CNN with the footage.