Matt Bradley is a London-based foreign correspondent for NBC News and MSNBC.
DAMASCUS, Syria — A man seen in video that emerged overnight claiming to show a missing American in Syria told NBC News on Thursday that he is a “pilgrim” named Travis from Missouri who was detained earlier this year after crossing into the country on foot. Surrounded by reporters while sat up on a bed in a room with disheveled walls, he said he had been imprisoned but had been treated well. He declined to provide his last name and said he was not a journalist.
” After being located in Dhiyabia by NBC News, the man who identified himself as Travis said he had “been reading the scripture a lot” before deciding to cross the mountains from Lebanon into Syria. He appeared unbothered — both by his ordeal and the reporters swarming around him. When one man kept insisting that he would take him to the safety of American custody, he replied that he was actually ok here and could take more questions.
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