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CNN Surges Into SPOTLIGHT As War Story Unravels With Fact-Check
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7:59Now PlayingCNN surges into the spotlight as a report with chief international correspondent Clarissa Ward and a man claiming to be a Syrian prisoner unravels when the people identify the man as a former Syrian intelligence officer instead. Francesca Fiorentini and Sharon Reed break it down on The Damage Report. Leave a comment with your thoughts below!
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CNN Gets Trashed for Response to Fake Syria Story
"CNN reported Monday evening that it had wrongly identified a man who appeared in a video report claiming to be a long-term prisoner of former President Bashar Al Assad’s regime.
In reality, the man is a former Syrian intelligence officer.
In a CNN story published last week, chief international correspondent Clarissa Ward and her crew were led by Syrian rebels into a Syrian air force headquarters in Damascus to look for Austin Tice, a missing American who they believed might have been held in a secret prison there. Instead, they discovered a locked cell where a man was hiding under a blanket.
The man identified himself as Adel Gharbal from Homs, and claimed that he had been in solitary confinement for three months. He appeared surprised and overwhelmed to learn that Assad’s regime had fallen. The footage, if verifiable, would have been astounding."
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