New BBC/NPR reporting reveals Austin Tice's 2012 Syria kidnapping was premeditated for weeks, personally approved by Bashar al-Assad after his trusted driver betrayed him to regime militia, contradicting years of assumptions about an opportunistic checkpoint abduction.
Assad Personally Ordered Austin Tice Kidnapping, New Investigation Reveals
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