Thread by @CharlieNash

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