Freed prisoner who said he was a victim of the Assad regime was an intelligence officer, locals say
A man who was filmed by CNN being released by rebels from a Damascus jail was a former intelligence officer with the deposed Syrian regime, according to local residents, and not an ordinary citizen who had been imprisoned, as he had claimed.
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