NBC foreign correspondent Richard Engel has released new details about his 2012 kidnapping in Syria which contradict his original account of the identity and affiliation of his captors.
Engel and his camera crew were held for five days and underwent “psychological torture” after being captured by who Engel originally said were militants aligned with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and supported by the Iran Revolutionary Guard and Hezbollah.
However, the revised account, which was posted on NBC’s website on Wednesday night, tells a different story. According to Engel, the kidnappers were actually part of a Sunni militant group that was allied with the Free Syrian Army.
Engel and his producers were prompted to investigate the new claims after they were contacted by The New York Times about a month ago, when that newspaper said they “had uncovered information that suggested the kidnappers were not who they said they were and that the Syrian rebels who rescued us had a relationship with the kidnappers.”
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