Who Is Salama Mohammad Salama? Prisoner CNN Freed from Syrian Prison Was Assad's Intelligence Officer Who Killed and Tortured Civilians
The man claimed he was taken from his home in Homs, arrested three months ago, and interrogated about his phone contacts.
CNN Says Man Who Identified Himself As Syrian Prisoner Was In Fact An Intelligence Officer - Update
D: CNN’s Clarissa Ward said that a man identified in her report as a prisoner under the brutal regime of Bashar al-Assad, the ...
All the clues that Syrian prisoner CNN helped free was hidden Assad regime torturer
The prisoner CNN escorted out of jail after he was freed by Syrian rebels was actually Salama Mohammad Salama , a notorious member of ousted President Bashar al-Assad’s forces, who tricked the ...
Prisoner CNN helped free from Syrian prison was actually notorious Assad regime torturer: report
We have subsequently been investigating his background and are aware that he may have given a false identity,” CNN said.
Freed prisoner who said he was a victim of the Assad regime was an intelligence officer, locals say
A man who was filmed by CNN being released by rebels from a Damascus jail was a former intelligence officer with the deposed ...
Clarissa Ward Controversy: Who Is Ex-Intelligence Officer Salama Mohammed Salama?
CNN admitted misidentifying a man in a report on missing journalist Austin Tice, originally claiming he was a former detainee ...
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CNN confirms identity of freed Syrian prisoner as Assad intelligence officer
CNN has confirmed the identity of Salama Mohammad Salama, a former Syrian air force intelligence officer who appeared in a ...
CNN Presented a Syrian Jailer as a Torture Survivor
The fiasco around the “Syrian prisoner” filmed by CNN demonstrates that sometimes institutions aren’t the best judges of misinformation.
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CNN admits man freed in viral segment was notorious lieutenant for Assad regime, not civilian as he claimed
Ward confirmed the man was actually Salama Mohammad Salama, also known as Abu Hamza, who was a first lieutenant in Syrian Air Force Intelligence. CNN's report said he was known for extortion and ...
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CNN Confirms It Was Misled By Man In Viral Syrian Prison Report
“We can confirm the real identity of the man from our story last Wednesday as Salama Mohammed Salama,” Clarissa Ward, who led the initial report, posted on social media Monday evenin ...
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CNN faces backlash over ‘staged’ Syrian prisoner rescue report
Criticism mounts as US channel backtracks on identity of prisoner who worked as intelligence officer in Assad regime.
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CNN Presented a Syrian Jailer as a Torture Survivor
He was right about Salama's job, if not the circumstances under which he ended up in that cell. It wouldn't be the first time CNN was apparently bamboozled in its war reporting. Last year ...