We should ask the militants who toppled Bashar al-Assad’s government in Syria what became of missing U.S. reporter Austin Tice.
, a fellow freelancer who had disappeared somewhere in Syria about eight weeks earlier. One evening on a hotel balcony in Antakya, Turkey, I made the mistake of sharing my story idea with a Syrian hotel guest. He seemed friendly enough at the time, but 24 hours later, he was pointing a handgun at my forehead as his three friends filmed the scene on an expensive-looking video camera.
About the CIA, I felt they were all nuts. But I had watched a certain harrowing Austin Tice video more than once. In that video, the last time the world heard from him, armed men lead him along a mountain path. He is in a blindfold and handcuffs. The men around him are calling out the greatness of God. “O Jesus, o Jesus,” he is saying — to himself, perhaps, or, possibly, to the heavens.
Over the following two years, I lived in 13 separate prisons in every corner of Syria. Eventually, I came to see that a single architecture governed the design of all of them. Upstairs, there was always a public-facing room in which the Jebhat al-Nusra men lounged, met reporters, and discussed the many ways in which ordinances could be made to harmonize more truly with the Koran.
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