ENEMEDIA: CNN Confirms The Prisoner They Freed from Syrian Prison Was Infamous Assad Regime Torturer

CNN has confirmed the identity of Salama Mohammad Salama, a former Syrian air force intelligence officer who appeared in a video report purporting to be a freed rebel prisoner.

CNN sh*ts the bed. Again.

Legacy media is an enemy of the people. Choose who edits your news.

Reason Magazine:

If the story sounded too good to be true, that’s because it was. On Sunday, a Syrian diaspora news outlet called Verify-Sy came forward with a shocking revelation: “Adel Ghurbal” does not exist. Instead, the outlet said, the man from the CNN segment was First Lieutenant Salama Mohammad Salama of the Air Force Intelligence Directorate, the same agency running the prison. (Despite its name, the directorate was a secret police force rather than an aerial reconnaissance branch.)

The next day, Verify-Sy published a photo of Salama in uniform, sitting behind his desk. After the photo was published, CNN admitted that the man was in fact Salama and that he was indeed an intelligence officer. Verify-Sy‘s team of 12 citizen journalists had caught CNN, the giant of broadcast journalism, in a grievous mistake.

Anonymous sources from Homs told Verify-Sy (and later, CNN) that Salama was an infamous torturer and extortionist. According to Verify-Sy, he had ended up in prison for “less than a month…due to a dispute over profit-sharing from extorted funds with a higher-ranking officer.” A resident of Homs said in an interview posted by Verify-Sy to YouTube that “this man was a tyrant, and an oppressor, an oppressor, an oppressor,” and that everyone in the neighborhood knew him as a sinister presence at checkpoints.

Even before Verify-Sy published its claims, Syrians had voiced their suspicions about the CNN story. The “prisoner,” they said, was too well-groomed and didn’t act like someone who had been locked in a dungeon for three months.

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Fun fact: The prisoner CNN freed was Assad regime's chief torturer. pic.twitter.com/zCdv6W5c3B

— Dr. Eli David (@DrEliDavid) December 16, 2024

Brutal. Brilliant. It’s what we’ve come to expect from the quite sublime @jamesmacpherson.

In a single news report he manages to destroy CNN, Biden, and Albanese.

You have my deepest respect James. This was savagely wonderful 🩷💪🏽 pic.twitter.com/LfEHzvkYrF

— Cheryl E 🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱🎗️ (@CherylWroteIt) December 17, 2024

Clean clothes, perfectly groomed, and perfectly manicured nails. Looking good for a prisoner who was supposedly confined and starved in a prison cell for months by Assad who didn’t know that the regime had fallen and that the prison had been emptied. CNN never fails to deliver. pic.twitter.com/AIaxnvLrqt

— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) December 13, 2024

You CANNOT make this up. Not only was CNN’s Chief War Propagandist Clarissa Ward caught red-handed faking (AGAIN) the rescue of a fake prisoner in a fake prison in Syria, it turns out the man she “helped” was a top-level torturer for Assad.

This is the same network that called… pic.twitter.com/4Ri3KueumD

— Bad Hombre (@joma_gc) December 16, 2024

Prisoner CNN helped free from Syrian prison was actually notorious Assad regime torturer: report

By Patrick Reilly, NY Post, Dec. 16, 2024:

The prisoner CNN helped free from a secret facility in Syria was actually a notorious member of Bashar al-Assad’s forces known to torture those who refused to pay him off, according to a shocking local fact check.

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The network went viral last week with footage of the startled prisoner being led from the prison by journalist Clarissa Ward, who called it “one of the most extraordinary moments I have witnessed” in her 20 years of reporting.

But “independent and unbiased” fact-checkers Verify-Sy published a detailed report Sunday saying that the seemingly innocent prisoner was actually Salama Mohammad Salama — a first lieutenant in Syrian air force intelligence with a long history of alleged war crimes.

“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.”

The CNN story last week showed Ward and a camera crew, escorted by a rebel fighter, visiting a former Syrian air force intelligence headquarters in Damascus and freeing the man who was found under a blanket locked in a windowless cell.

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