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Locked Up Abroad asks: How did Matt Schrier escape Al Qaeda?

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Matt Schrier
This week Locked Up Abroad spotlights freelance photographer Matthew B. Schrier’s remarkable escape from Al Qaeda. Schrier was working in Syria near the Turkish border in December 2012 when a Jeep cut his party off on the road and three men leapt out. They captured him and placed him in the back of their 4×4 at gun point. The group turned out to be Jabhat al-Nursa, who are an affiliate of Al-Qaeda in Syria. Schrier was moved about various prisons in Aleppo over the next few months and decided to convert to Islam as a way of getting better treatment. During...read more

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