Verify-Sy, a Syrian fact-checking group, identified the man as Salama Mohammad Salama, a first lieutenant in the Syrian Air Force Intelligence, an agency that served the Assad regime
Verify-Sy now adds that this man is Air Force Intelligence First Lieutenant Salama Mohammad Salama, notorious for extortion and theft in Homs, who had been arrested due to disputes with his colleagues about profit sharing.
The prisoner CNN’s Clarissa Ward purportedly discovered and helped free from a secret Syrian facility last week is actually an intelligence agent who served in Bashar al-Assad’s regime and helped the brutal dictator torture and kill civilians, a Syrian news watchdog said Sunday.
While searching a secret Damascus prison in the wake of Assad’s fall from power, Ward’s broadcast team “made a startling discovery when a rebel fighter uncovered a hidden prisoner still unaware of Assad’s ouster,” according to the outlet.