Hammar, who faced down Iraqi insurgents in the final push on Fallujah in 2004,  has been in dangerous situations before. But his treatment in the infamous  prison, where Mexico's murderous Los Zetas and Gulf drug cartels hold sway, has  his family fearing for the 27-year-old's life -- and begging the Obama  administration for help. Hammar was arrested in the Mexican border city of  Matamoros on Aug. 13, after declaring to a Mexican customs agent that he  possessed an antique shotgun he was carrying through the country on his way  to Costa Rica, where he and a pal planned to surf and forget the horrors of war  that plagued Hammar long after his honorable discharge in 2007.

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