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“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

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

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