Inside CNN’s investigation into what happened to missing journalist Austin Tice
In a remarkable piece of dogged reporting published Tuesday, CNN’s Clarissa Ward tracked what may have happened to Austin Tice, the journalist and former U.S. Marine who went missing in 2012 while reporting from Syria.
In a grim moment, Bassam Al-Hassan, a powerful adviser to former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, tells Ward, “Of course, Austin is dead. Austin is dead.”
Al-Hassan has been a key figure in the Tice story since the journalist went missing more than a decade ago. He has claimed that Tice was killed in 2013 on Assad’s orders.
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