A Syrian war correspondent for CNN may have been tricked into accidentally releasing a “notorious torturer” from a Syrian prison while covering rebel efforts to extricate black site prisoners following the fall of the Assad regime.
The New York Post reported that an independent fact-checking organization concluded the man who journalist Clarissa Ward helped “rescue” from a decrepit prison cell was actually Salama Mohammad Salama, a first lieutenant in the Syrian Air Force intelligence who was notorious for torturing young men on bogus charges, such as not paying bribes while crossing checkpoints. CNN acknowledged in a statement that Salama may have given the reporter a false name when she and other rebels discovered him sleeping under a blanket inside a former Air Force intelligence headquarters in Damascus. “We have subsequently been investigating his background and are aware that he may have given a false identity,” CNN acknowledged to The Post. “We are continuing our reporting into this and the wider story.”
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The CNN story last week showed Ward entering…
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