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In 'Blindfold,' Journalist Theo Padnos Recounts 2 Years Of Captivity, Torture In Syria


Blindfold: A Memoir of Capture, Torture, and Enlightenment by Theo Padnos (Courtesy)
In 2012, freelance journalist Theo Padnos was in a Turkish border town searching for a way into Syria to cover the civil war.
He found men who volunteered to guide him through the country and soon found out they were not who they claimed they were.
Once over the border into Syria, the al-Qaida affiliates kidnaped Padnos, tortured him, moved him from prison to prison for two years, and threatened him with execution but Padnos survived.
Alone without support from a news organization, Padnos was unprepared to set foot in a war zone when he tried entering Syria nearly a decade ago. The freelance reporter says he didn’t realize the so-called guides, who belonged to al-Qaida affiliate group Jabhat al-Nusra, had grim ulterior motives until they held a gun to his head. ....

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'Blindfold: A Memoir of Capture, Torture, and Enlightenment,' by Theo Padnos: An Excerpt


‘Blindfold: A Memoir of Capture, Torture, and Enlightenment,’ by Theo Padnos: An Excerpt
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Feb. 16, 2021
As I walked downward, into the center of Antakya, I turned into the narrow, darkened alleyway by which one entered the Ercan. Almost always, at every hour of the day, Syrians with whom I had a nodding acquaintance could be found milling about in front. On this evening, a café lounger who called himself Abu Firas happened to be smoking a cigarette at a sidewalk table. During our first meeting, I had told him that I was a reporter who wished to travel into Syria. The moment I appeared in the street, when I was still fifty paces from him, he called out my name. I ambled to his table. He invited me to sit. There were no formalities. He proposed a trip into Syria. For $100 in cash, up front, he would take me to any village I wished to visit in Idlib Province. He had grown up in the province. He knew everyone there. Okay? Was I in agreement? Oka ....

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