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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. ....
Held Hostage in Syria, a Reporter Tells What It Took to Survive Soldiers and kids at a checkpoint in Homs, Syria, in 2014. Where possible, Theos Padnos befriends his captors, many of whom had themselves been brutalized under Syria’s dictatorial leader, Bashar al-Assad.Credit.Sergey Ponomarev for The New York Times Buy Book ▾ By Theo Padnos In the fall of 2012, Theo Padnos was down and out in Antakya. An American freelance reporter in his early 40s, he was bunking at a grotty guesthouse in this town in southern Turkey on the border with Syria. Magazine editors were ignoring his emails. His funds had shrunk to a few hundred dollars. He felt lonely. ....
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