CNN Confirms It Was Misled By Man In Viral Syrian Prison Report
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The news outlet reported the man was said to have been involved with the collapsed Assad regime as an intelligence officer.
CNN confirmed Monday that it had been deceived about the identity of a man featured in a viral news report last week appearing to show the moment he was found in a Syrian prison and freed.
The man told CNN he was Adel Gharbal from Homs, and claimed he had been locked up for three months, but a Syrian fact-checking group later cast doubt on those assertions and said it had identified him as Salama Mohammad Salama, an officer of the notorious Syrian Air Force Intelligence Directorate.
CNN told HuffPost earlier on Monday it was investigating if the man gave a “false identity.”
“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 evening.
CNN published an article elaborating on its findings.
"In nearly twenty years as a journalist, this was one of the most extraordinary moments I have witnessed," Clarissa Ward said.
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