World BrieflyTrump's team asked Russia for help freeing a missing American journalist and nobody told us until now
SpawnXPAmerican journalist and Marine veteran Austin Tice has been missing in Syria since August 2012. Recent CNN investigation reveals former Syrian official Bassam al-Hassan claims Assad ordered Tice execution in 2013, but he failed FBI polygraph test. Tice family reviewed declassified documents showing US had daily information about his detention.
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American journalist and Marine veteran Austin Tice has been missing in Syria since August 2012. Recent CNN investigation reveals former Syrian official Bassam al-Hassan claims Assad ordered Tice execution in 2013, but he failed FBI polygraph test. Tice family reviewed declassified documents showing US had daily information about his detention.
#AustinTice #MissingJournalist #SyriaHostage #AustinTiceCase
Alan KotokPhoto-shoot today at National Press Club: The Austin Tice hostage case, 13 years later. New developments in the Austin Tice case for the past year, from government, media, and intelligence sources.
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Houston Public MediaToday marks 13 years since Houston freelance journalist and former U.S. Marine Austin Tice was abducted in Syria. His mother told the National Press Club, "My son is not dead. ... He is alive, and we will find him."
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NaveedThe effort failed: Fellow journalists covering #Syria immediately found the YouTube video suspicious, a clumsy attempt to pin #AustinTice’s abduction on Islamist militants or rebel forces. The #US agreed. An intelligence analysis indicated that it was shot near a regime facility.
Before long he began writing stories, too. #AustinTice's first dispatch published by The Post, from the town of Khan Sheikhoun, appeared on June 19. It provided a vivid account of the guerrilla warfare tactics deployed by rebels against #Assad’s forces. #Syria
The #Assad regime remained opaque and implacable until the end. As recently as 2023, a #Syria|n official received a message from Assad ahead of a meeting with #US officials, according to a person with knowledge of the event. The directive was simple: Do not talk about #AustinTice
Days later, #AustinTice made a desperate bid for freedom. He squeezed his body through the window of his cell and threw the towel over an exterior wall topped with shards of glass. A reporter known for his courage in covering #Syria’s brutal civil war and a Marine veteran.
NonilexA doctor close to #BassamHassan has also acknowledged treating #AustinTice.
Early in #Syria’s civil war, Hassan worked w/ #Iran to help establish a paramilitary force known as the National Defense Forces [#NDF], which received funding & training from Tehran. The NDF…was modeled after Iran’s #Basij, a plainclothes #militia under the umbrella of the Revolutionary Guards [#IRGC].
The BBC reported that Tice had been held by the NDF at one point.