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Photo-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.
More photos: https://technewslitphoto.smugmug.com/National-Press-Club-events/Austin-Tice-held-13-years
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Today 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."
#Houston #International #Local #News #AustinTice #DebraTice #PresidentBasharAlAssad #SyrianCivilWar #TrumpAdministration
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A 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.
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It was the best piece of evidence…that #Syria had…been holding #AustinTice, despite never acknowledging…[it] & failing to respond to diplomatic efforts to free him.
This month, BBC News reported it had obtained a trove of #intelligence files that showed he had been held in prison in Damascus. In interviews, a fmr Syrian general, Safwan Bahloul, said he had interrogated Tice, the first time any Syrian ofcl had disclosed having had contact w/ him.
#Assad #WarCrimes
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The #US ofcls confronted Moustapha with a document showing that the Syrians had #AustinTice in their custody in 2012. The document, one of the US ofcls said, was the equivalent of what is known in law enforcement circles as a “BOLO” — or be on the lookout — as Syrian ofcls combed Damascus looking for Tice after his escape.
#journalism #WarCorrespondence #Assad #Syria #WarCrimes #InternationalLaw
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#AustinTice escaped weeks later but was recaptured by one of the security branches. A witness told the #FBI that #BasssmHassan was involved in Tice’s capture & imprisonment. After his recapture, Tice was placed in a detention facility under the control of Hassan, who was in charge of #Assad’s security….
In 2022 & 2023, snr #Biden ofcls traveled to Oman to meet w/ Imad Moustapha, a fmr Syrian ambassador.
#journalism #WarCorrespondence #Assad #Syria #WarCrimes #InternationalLaw
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#AustinTice, a former Marine who graduated from the #Georgetown School of #ForeignService & was also enrolled in #law school there, was abducted in August 2012 after traveling to a suburb of Damascus. Weeks later, he appeared blindfolded in a video w/masked men carrying assault rifles. Former American ofcls believe that the video might have been a ruse to blame militants for his abduction.
#journalism #WarCorrespondence #Assad #Syria #WarCrimes #InternationalLaw
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Diplomatic efforts, along with a #CIA task force & secret outreach by the spy agency’s ofcls, failed to turn up info about #AustinTice. #US ofcls were deflated after the govt fell, & they were not able to unravel the mystery of Tice’s abduction even with a sizable reward & US spy agencies focused on #Syria. The country’s new president, Ahmed al-#Shara, also agreed to help search for Tice as part of his overtures to Washington.
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Over a period of time since late April, #BassamHassan was interviewed by #FBI & #CIA. It is not clear how many times the investigators spoke to Hassan, or the extent of the info he provided about #AustinTice or other aspects of #Syria’s #ChemicalWeapons program or other activities under #Assad.
#journalism #WarCorrespondence #Syria #WarCrimes #InternationalLaw
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…#BBCNews also reported that #BassamHassan had told #intelligence ofcls that #AustinTice had been executed.
As one of #Assad’s closest #security advisers, Hassan is accused of helping orchestrate attacks involving a lethal #NerveAgent in 2013 in the Ghouta suburbs outside Damascus. fmr ofcls under Assad & American ofcls have also described Hassan as a close partner of #Iran’s Revolutionary Guards in #Syria, w/direct insights into Iranian activities in the region.
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A fmr snr American ofcl familiar w/ the #AustinTice case said there should be skepticism about what #BassamHassan told investigators because of a possible desire to cast blame on #Assad.
Assad fled to Moscow after the collapse of his government, leaving behind some of his most ardent supporters. Several Syrian & Lebanese ofcls w/ties to the former al-Assad government expressed similar concerns over Hassan’s testimony.
#journalism #WarCorrespondence #Syria #WarCrimes #InternationalLaw
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…American #intelligence agencies have long believed that #BassamHassan played a critical role in #AustinTice’s imprisonment. His name was one of several the #Biden admin gave the rebel group that toppled the #Assad Syrian govt in the hopes it could obtain information about Tice. Hassan, American officials believe, could provide clues about not only Tice but also other matters of importance to the #UnitedStates & its allies.
#journalism #WarCorrespondence #Syria #WarCrimes #InternationalLaw
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For more than a decade, the #UnitedStates has hunted for information about Mr. Tice’s whereabouts, holding out hope that he survived Syria’s brutal prison system, where torture and killings were routine. The rapid collapse of #Assad’s reign after more than a half-century of family rule helped renew the search for #AustinTice, with American investigators believing they might finally learn his fate.
#journalism #WarCorrespondence #Syria #WarCrimes #InternationalLaw
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In meetings w/ the #FBI & #CIA, the fmr commander, #BassamHassan, a top adviser to #Assad who was accused of facilitating the country’s #ChemicalWeapons attacks on #civilians, disclosed in recent weeks that Assad, the #authoritarian leader who was toppled in Dec, had ordered the killing of #AustinTice. The #journalist was kidnapped 13 years ago at a checkpoint in a suburb of Damascus.
#journalism #WarCorrespondence #Syria #WarCrimes #InternationalLaw
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A top Syrian general under President Bashar al-#Assad before his ouster has surfaced in Lebanon, where he told US investigators that #AustinTice, an American #journalist who went missing in 2012, was dead & provided the possible site of his grave….
#journalism #WarCorrespondence #Syria #WarCrimes #InternationalLaw
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/15/us/politics/syria-austin-tice-journalist.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare -
@fulelo Surely trump, being a so-called 'strongman', can simply call his adorable buddy vlad putin and tell him to hand that assad guy over. Right?
Surely it's worth at least asking, right?
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🇸🇾 SYRIA | 🇺🇸 US
🔴 US Sends Syria Demands for Sanctions Relief🔸 First Trump-era high-level contact: US met Syria FM on March 18 in Brussels.
🔸 Demands: Remove foreign fighters from gov’t, destroy chemical stockpiles, assist in finding missing journalist Austin Tice.
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Debra Tice, missing US journalist Austin Tice's mother visits Syria to renew search for him
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn0yw1d212do
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Le journaliste américain #AustinTice est "vivant", l'évêque Youhanna Ibrahim avait été emprisonné par le régime syrien, selon une ONG
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The U.S. has made “direct contact” with the Syrian rebels now in control of the country after toppling the Assad regime, Secretary of State Antony Blinken says. One key discussion point was the fate of the missing American journalist, Austin Tice. @BBCNews has more:
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A video has surfaced online suggesting that American journalist Austin Tice has been found alive in Damascus after disappearing in 2012 and being declared missing.
There is currently no official confirmation that it is him.
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Photo-shoot yesterday: The family of freelance journalist Austin Tice, held in Syria since 2012, reports on its meeting at the White House. National Press Club, 6 Dec. 2024. Speaking here: Debra Tice, Austin Tice's mother
Gallery: https://technewslitphoto.smugmug.com/National-Press-Club-events/Tice-family-press-conference
#Photography #NewsPhotography #AustinTice #Hostage #Journalist #WhiteHouse #PressFreedom #NationalPressClub
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The family of Austin Tice, a Houston journalist and U.S. Marine Corps veteran kidnapped in Syria more than a dozen years ago, is making a fresh push with the Biden Administration to secure his freedom.
#International #Local #News #Politics #AustinTice #Hostages #Kidnapping #MissingPerson #NationalSecurityCouncil #PresidentJoeBiden #Syria #SyrianCivilWar