Posted on 12/17/2024 5:30:32 AM PST by TigerClaws
A man who was filmed by CNN being released by rebels from a Damascus jail was a former intelligence officer with the deposed Syrian regime, according to local residents, and not an ordinary citizen who had been imprisoned, as he had claimed.
CNN initially found the man while pursuing leads on the missing US journalist Austin Tice. In a video report, chief international correspondent Clarissa Ward and her team, accompanied by a rebel guard, came across a cell in a Damascus jail that was padlocked from the outside. The guard blew off the lock with a gun, and the man was found alone inside the cell, under a blanket.
When he emerged into the open air, the man appeared bewildered. Questioned by the rebel fighter who freed him, the man identified himself as Adel Ghurbal from the central Syrian city of Homs.
He claimed that he had been kept in a cell for three months, adding that it was the third prison where he had been confined. The man also said he was not aware that the Assad regime had fallen. He was being held in a jail that had been run by the Syrian air force’s intelligence services until the Assad regime collapsed.
An image obtained by CNN on Monday now points to the man’s real identity – said to be a lieutenant in the Assad regime’s Air Force Intelligence Directorate, Salama Mohammad Salama.
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The people who worked for Assad are little angels compared to the Terrorists we just installed to replace Assad.
Typical Leftist thinking
Everyone in jail deserves to be free.
News Flash to Leftist
Even dictators jail some people that need to be there.
People on X figured this out in about 10 seconds, by his well manicured nails.
The CNN mistake does not minimize the real news of real prisoners that have been freed, nor does it minimize what took place in Assad’s political prisons.
CNN has always been the terrorist’s favorite network.
Anyone who looks at the sourcing for this claim should be very skeptical. Yet almost everyone who reads this article will come away sure it is true. This is journalism today
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