Assad Personally Approved US Journalist Austin Tice's Kidnapping, BBC Reports

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A BBC investigation has found that the abduction of American journalist Austin Tice in Syria was planned over several weeks. According to a source cited by the BBC, the kidnapping was personally approved by former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Tice, who went missing in Syria in 2012, has been unaccounted for ever since. The findings suggest his disappearance was a deliberate state-sanctioned operation rather than a random act. The revelation adds new weight to long-standing suspicions that the Assad regime was directly responsible for Tice's fate.

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