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Desperado

“I’m free and I can talk to you and ride my bike around Paris,” says former hostage Theo Padnos. “It’s better than the alternative.”

A former hostage of extremists in Syria thinks the US needs to talk to Assad

Justice

American journalist Theo Padnos thinks much more can be done to help Westerners still held captive by extremists in Syria.

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