Austin Tice
The Syrian government denies that it detained Austin Tice, who has been missing for 10 years after being kidnapped in Syria
Originally published by AntiWar
The Biden administration has restored backchannel communication with the Syrian government as part of an effort to discover the fate of Austin Tice, an American who was kidnapped in Syria in 2012 while working in the country as a freelance journalist.
According to a report from McClatchyDC, President Biden hosted Tice’s parents at the White House on May 2 and told them that he directed his team to secure a meeting with top Syrian officials. Tice’s parents have been calling for the US to directly engage with the Syrian government.
Biden said last week that he knows “with certainty” that Tice is being held by the Syrian government. But Syrian officials have denied this, and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has never said that his government had detained Tice.
Since hosting Tice’s parents, the Biden administration has made no apparent progress on securing meetings over the missing American. During previous negotiations in 2020 between Syria and the Trump administration, Damascus demanded that the US withdraw all of its troops from Syria, lift sanctions on the country, and normalize relations to start a discussion on US interests.
The US keeps a small occupation force in eastern Syria of about 1,000 troops and backs the Kurdish-led SDF in the region. The area that the US occupies is where most of Syria’s oil fields and wheat fields are located, keeping the vital resources out of the hands of Damascus.
The US also maintains crippling economic sanctions on Syria that are meant to prevent the country’s reconstruction. The official US policy toward Assad’s government is that the sanctions will remain in place, and Washington won’t normalize with Damascus until there is regime change, what the Biden administration calls a “political settlement.”
Its a total outrage that those American criminals are allowed to occupy the oil fields,and i don’t give a rats arse whether the Syrians have this guy or not.
The Americunts are only interested in looting Syrian oil. The Syrians are getting fed up with Turks and their US and Zionist masters stealing oil and supporting Wahhabi terrorism. Dr. Assad is here to stay and the sooner the small misled Sunni minority terrorists doing Americunt, Turkey and Zionist bidding understand that the sooner Syria will have peace.
Tice is a Jew
Syria has no reason to just jail honest journalists.
I doubt there ARE any honest US journalists in Syria,i mean how did he enter the Country? i doubt he landed at Damascus airport,if he is like other so called western journalists he probably came over the Turkish border to be met by head hacking jihadis.
How ’bout a Crocodile tear for the CIA agent that carried a press badge and got whacked with just cause 10 years ago!…. One less subversive American “agent terr0ri$t” to fuck up the World even more!?…
Can’t have too few of these!
Senile Biden “knows with certainty”… LMAO. I saw this movie before. Last time it was a F-18 pilot shot down in Iraq. Everyone “knew” he was being held by the Iraqis, while he was really rotting in the dirt. US politicians and media used the story to build up Iraq-hate to gain support for the war and then dropped it like a hot rock when they got their way after building up false hope among the poor shmuck’s family. They are trying the same BS again.
this scum is not a journalist he was CIA, now in mass grave w his ISIS girlfriend
Thanks for letting me know.
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2:03 pm CST Aug. 16, 2022