US journalist Austin Tice supposedly executed on Assad’s command | EUROtoday

The U.S. journalist Austin Tice, who was lacking in Syria, has been murdered at a BBC report on the behest of the previous ruler Bashar al-Assad. This is claimed by the previous Major General Bassam al-Hassan, who was liable for the arrest of Tice in 2012.

Tice had disappeared close to Damascus in August 2012. The Assad regime denied realizing the place the journalist was. Al-Hassan is now stated to have instructed investigators from the FBI and the CIA that Assad has ordered Tice’s execution. Al-Hassan is claimed to have initially contradicted this, however then handed on the killing order that was additionally carried out.

Experts doubt that Assad would have given such a command personally. Investigators now wish to seek for the physique of the supposedly killed journalist.

According to Debra Tice, the mom of the journalist, the BBC accompanied the thirteenth anniversary of her son’s disappearance. She tried to satisfy Bassam al-Hassan herself and requested the US message for assist. “I just want to speak to him as a mother and ask him about my son,” she instructed the BBC. The try to satisfy Al-Hassan was unsuccessful.

Debra Tice says that Al-Hassan fed “the FBI with a story” that “they wanted to hear” to assist them full the case. “I am his mother, I still think my son lives and that he will be released,” she instructed the BBC.