{"id":11407,"date":"2024-12-17T15:02:35","date_gmt":"2024-12-17T15:02:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/17\/freed-prisoner-who-said-he-was-a-victim-of-the-assad-regime-was-an-intelligence-officer-locals-say\/"},"modified":"2024-12-17T15:02:35","modified_gmt":"2024-12-17T15:02:35","slug":"freed-prisoner-who-said-he-was-a-victim-of-the-assad-regime-was-an-intelligence-officer-locals-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/17\/freed-prisoner-who-said-he-was-a-victim-of-the-assad-regime-was-an-intelligence-officer-locals-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Freed prisoner who said he was a victim of the Assad regime was an intelligence officer, locals say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm4rkfme200083b6mh9l532zp@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            When he emerged into the open air, the man appeared bewildered. Questioned by the rebel fighter who freed him, the man identified himself as Adel Ghurbal from the central Syrian city of Homs.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm4rkfme200093b6mqpyyqk4j@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            He claimed that he had been kept in a cell for three months, adding that it was the third prison where he had been confined. The man also said he was not aware that the Assad regime had fallen. He was being held in a jail that had been run by the Syrian air force\u2019s intelligence services until the Assad regime collapsed.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm4rkfme2000f3b6mi8zqgt1y@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            Rebel guards handed him over to the Syrian Red Crescent. The medical relief organization later posted a picture of him on social media, saying they had returned a freed prisoner to relatives in Damascus.    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm4rkfme2000h3b6m7zr83ft0@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">            Salama\u2019s current whereabouts are unknown.    <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div>This post appeared first on cnn.com<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When he emerged into the open air, the man appeared bewildered. Questioned by the rebel&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11408,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11407\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}