Travis Timmerman appeared free in Syria on Thursday, saying he was detained by the Assad regime seven months ago after crossing into the country during a Christian pilgrimage.
An American freed in Syria on Thursday said he was on a Christian pilgrimage when he crossed into the country on foot seven months ago and was detained by the Bashar al-Assad regime. Travis Timmerman was first seen in video that emerged online Thursday after rebels seized the capital Damascus and overthrew Assad over the weekend. In the video, a bearded Timmerman was lying on a mattress under a blanket in what appeared to be a private house.
Timmerman later told the Al-Arabiya TV network during an interview that he was detained after illegally crossing into Syria on foot from the eastern Lebanese town of Zahle seven months ago. He said the guards treated him well in detention but could hear others, who he believed were young men, being tortured daily. 'It was OK. I was fed. I was watered.
Meanwhile, the Biden administration sent the U.S. government’s top hostage negotiator, Roger Carstens, to Lebanon earlier this week in hopes of collecting information on the whereabouts of Tice. Tice was detained in Damascus in August 2012 while reporting on the uprising against the Assad regime, which marked the early stages of the Syrian civil war.
Tice was last seen in video that emerged weeks after his disappearance, showing him blindfolded and held by armed men and saying, 'Oh, Jesus.' The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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