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Risked his life to smuggle out evidence of atrocities at the hands of the syrian regime. here s his story. reporter: under the rubble of every building are stories of lives, of families, of dreams all ended too soon. here lived an unsung hero, a man who risked his life for justice, for his syria. cnn met mustafa in 2018 at turkey s border with syria while filming a report about his team s work. for his safety, we couldn t show his face. he was on one of many clandestine missions over the past decade to smuggle out evidence of atrocities committed by the regime president. mustafa s trained lawyer was the deputy chief at the commission for international justice and accountability. mustafa was a man quite ....
Unlike any other i have met in the field of work, especially in syria. he has been one of our first recruited investigators. they have secured over 1 million pages of the documents produced by the regime itself and that is something unheard of. reporter: the troves of evidence secured by mustafa played a key role in landmark trials including the case in the u.s. of slain journal marie coleman versus the republic. his contribution has already been enormous. he never lost sight of what it was all for and despite all the hardships he and his family have been through, he never gave up. he never lost hope and he never lost track of why he was doing what he was doing. reporter: three years ago mustafa and his family had to leave their beloved homeland. we helped move mustafa and his family into turkey, not only because of the security threats that he had faced, but ....
my daughter has been nauseous with. headaches my husband has a headache since it happened. my biggest, with me, was i had burning of the nose and. eyes norfolk southern has not responded to the lawsuits. yes but company officials have promised to help aid in cleanup efforts, including removing contaminated soil into liquid. joining me now is mustafa, ali the executive vice president of the national wildlife federation. and former senior adviser and assistant associate administrator for environmental justice at the environmental protection agency. , mustafa good. morning thank you so much for joining us. this is a really important story. you wrote an op-ed about this disaster. what is your biggest concern about the derailment in east palestine? my biggest concern is making sure that there is real transparency in the information that is being shared. to make sure that residents there have the information they need to make the best decisions for themselves. i am also extremely conce ....
they are going to be investigations, hopefully with a level of transparency that you rightly are advocating for. but should we be concerned that the train company at issue here, norfolk, southern is valued at 53 billion dollars as of friday? we create a fund for the ohio train derailments that is only $1 million. i know they are giving some of their money, mustafa. but there s been little reporting on a second to train derailment this time, near detroit. again involving norfolk. southern and that was just a few days, ago this past thursday. the long term financial impact on these residence is potentially incalculable. without a doubt. 1 million dollar is just a drop in the bucket. and what folks are going to need. norfolk southern used to set step up and do the right things. james baldwin once said, i can t believe what you say because i see what you do. to have two of these types of incidents happening in such a short time, and then we look at into a talent for the last set ....