Over the next seven months he would endure torture and near starvation in six brutal terrorist prisons. Just 45 minutes from the safety of the Turkish border, he was taken prisoner by the al-Nusra Front, an organization the world would come to know as the Syrian branch of al-Qaeda. On New Year’s Eve in 2012, Matthew Schrier was headed home from Syria, where he’d been photographing the intense combat of the country’s civil war. I had stopped saying Matt a while ago because it means “dead” in Arabic. “What is your name?” asked General Mohammad. A photographer captured in Syria and imprisoned for seven months recounts his story and how he became the first American ever to escape al-Qaeda.
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