@michaeldweiss 1).
„In 2020, Washington sent two officials, Roger Carstens and Kash Patel, to Lebanon to locate Austin Tice [1] [2], an American journalist who had disappeared in Syria in 2012 and was thought to be in the hands of the Assad regime.”
Feb. 6, 2026
@michaeldweiss 2).
Endnotes:
[1] „In June 2025, Syrian intelligence files uncovered by the BBC and confirmation from former Syrian officials confirmed that Austin Tice had been held by the Assad regime (a).
@michaeldweiss 3).
The BBC found that the @FBI and @CIA had interviewed Major General Bassam al-Hassan, a former Assad regime official who is accused of being responsible for holding Tice captive, multiple times earlier in the year.
@michaeldweiss @FBI @CIA 4).
Hassan told the investigators that the regime had Tice executed in 2013, a claim that has not been corroborated (b) (c) (d) (e).”
(a) @BBCBreaking bbc.com/news/articles/…
(b) @BBCBreaking bbc.com/news/articles/…
@michaeldweiss @FBI @CIA @BBCBreaking 5).
(c) 𝕿𝖍𝖊 𝖂𝖆𝖘𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖌𝖙𝖔𝖓 𝕻𝖔𝖘𝖙 (@washingtonpost) washingtonpost.com/national-secur…
(d) @CNN edition.cnn.com/2025/10/28/pol…
(e) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austin_Ti…
[2] @Georgetown journalism.georgetown.edu/freeaustintice/
Source:
@TheAtlantic archive.ph/eQovl
@michaeldweiss @FBI @CIA @BBCBreaking @washingtonpost @CNN @Georgetown @TheAtlantic Please unroll @threadreaderapp. Thank you in advance 𓃠
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