Taking a look at the extremely bizarre video of CNN correspondent Clarissa Ward supposedly rescuing a Syrian prisoner, and the huge number of questions it raises:

In the video, Ward and CNN are led by an armed “guard”. A member of the new Islamist regime, he takes CNN on a tour through the complex

They soon stumble upon a locked cell – in a prison which has been completely emptied, the prisoners freed. “The guard makes us turn the camera off while he shoots the lock off the cell door,” Ward reports. Viewers do not get to see the “guard” opening the door

After a fade to black, we see Ward and the camera crew enter the cell. From what we can see, the cell is clean. There is no waste. Only a blanket, which Ward repeatedly calls out to to see if anyone is underneath

Receiving no response, the guard lifts the blanket, revealing a man who quickly gets up and raises his hands in the air. He looks healthy, his clothes clean, hair and nails trimmed. He says he has been in the cell for three months, without food/water for four days

Presumably, the man did not hear the guard shooting the lock off his door, or the camera crew calling out to him from a few feet away. But he appears to be in remarkably good condition. He is quickly on his feet and in conversation. He can hear the guard and the CNN crew

They escort the man outside, but instead of taking him straight to a hospital or doctor – the logical thing to do with a man who has been in a windowless cell for three months, without food & water for four days – they sit him in a chair and interview him

Asked by Anderson Cooper what is known “about this man and how he ended up in the prison,” Ward admits, “Well, we don’t know that much because you can see from the report, Anderson, that he’s in a deep state of shock.”

Ward admits she knows nothing about the man or if his statements are true. Everything in the report is taken at face value, from the guard opening the door (they were not allowed to film) to the prisoner’s claims

@ScharoMaroof

This raises some serious serious questions about journalistic integrity. 2 days ago the air force intelligence prison was entered by the *Syrian rebels* and all cells have been opened – those who entered live broadcasted this on Facebook for example.

Now CNN correspondent goes there and finds the last remaining locked prison cell and they then decide to open it – so for 2 days the cell was locked despite all other cells having been opened..?

Despite the prison being combed several times (as Syrian prisons have secret entrances to more cells; check sadnaya prison where an underground entrance was hidden in the prison kitchen) – and with her there they decide to open it by simply shooting at the door. I don’t know…

The man has a relative beard-line and his general appearance does not match the appearance of the other prisoners. Also his clothes and the condition of his body.

Re the Syrian regime prisons: some horrible stuff were found there – scenes reminiscent of Auschwitz (and I mean that) – bags filled with the remains of humans that were squashed into 1 big mass of human remains stacked on shelfs or thrown on the ground, rooms filled with hair of the prisoners, children clothes, 100s of rotting bodies, various rooms for executions, torture chambers and unfortunately much much more.

Despite that – CNN must do a fact check on this story. The prison has been liberated for days now; several Syrian reporters were there already – families have come to look for the remains of their family members – prisons were searched by search teams send by the Turkish government; yet somehow all of them ignored this 1 prison cell? – with exactly 1 prisoner inside despite this being a prison cell for multiple prisoners?

I’ve added a screenshot: even reporters of Hayat Tahrir Al Sham are questioning this story..

The video in question

The man featured in Clarissa Ward’s @cnni segment has been identified by @VeSyriaE as a first lieutenant in Syrian Air Force Intelligence. He is believed to have killed civilians, detained and tortured young men in Homs, and now seems to be trying to rehabilitate his image.

The alleged prisoner who was found by @CNN reporter @clarissaward in Damascus is Salama Mohammad Salama, he’s a junior officer at Assad intelligence, his office was in Albayyada in my city Homs. He used to blackmail the families to make money of their kids.

@warfareanalysis

On December 12, CNN published a report titled “CNN witnesses moment Syrian prisoner is freed from Assad’s forced detention” The video shows Clarissa Ward in a Damascus prison, accompanied by an armed individual, discovering a man who claims to be Adel Gharbal from Homs. He alleges that he was arrested three months earlier and transferred shortly before the fall of Assad’s regime. The man, who allegedly had been hiding under his blanket despite the sound of gunfire from the armed man unlocking his cell, claimed that he hadn’t seen light for three months. However, the reaction of his eyes to the light suggested otherwise, as he didn’t even blink when he looked at the sky.
@VeSyriaE platform team found no official records of an individual named “Adel Gharbal” to verify the reason and duration of his detention. However, after investigating in Homs, they discovered that his real name is Salama Muhammad Salama, a former first lieutenant in the Assad regime Air Force Intelligence, one of the most notorious branches of Bashar al-Assad’s regime. Known as “Abu Hamza,” He is often found in the “Al-Bayyadah” neighborhood, one of the largest neighborhoods in the city of Homs, specifically on Al-Zubair Street at the western entrance of the neighborhood, heading a notorious security checkpoint, according to the locals. Salama was responsible for several security checkpoints in Homs and was involved in extortion and controlling people’s livelihoods. He was recently imprisoned due to a dispute over profits with a higher-ranking officer, leading to his detention in a Damascus prison. In addition to his horrific history, Salama, since his return to Homs after the fall of the regime, has been attempting to gain the sympathy of the locals, convincing them that he was forced to do everything he did, including killing, terrorizing, and engaging in thuggery. The @VeSyriaE platform team also learned that Abu Hamza deactivated his social media accounts and changed his phone number in an attempt to hide any documents that could indicate he carried weapons and was involved in war crimes. Here are some testimonies from residents of his neighborhood in Homs, testifying to his crimes, obtained by @VeSyriaE. But why would CNN fabricate such story ?!
I was also wondering where this humanity suddenly came from in the Western, Zionist-owned propaganda media. Now they care for Arab prisoners, while the same Arab prisoners are literally being raped to death in their Zionist colonial project prisons, some of whom were doctors kidnapped from hospitals!. This doesn’t negate the fact that hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians have been kidnapped and tortured to death in Assad regime’s prisons, as documented by reliable Syrian media. But why would Zionist propaganda CNN fabricate such story ?! Perhaps to wash his criminal past for some hidden American agenda, or they were deceived with misleading information .