Joe Biden believes lacking American journalist Austin Tice, who disappeared 12 years in the past close to the Syrian capital, is alive, and stated that Washington is dedicated to bringing him house after Bashar al-Assad’s ousting from energy.
“We predict we will get him again,” Biden advised reporters on the White Home on Sunday, whereas acknowledging that “we’ve got no direct proof” of his standing.
Biden stated officers should nonetheless establish precisely the place Tice is after his disappearance in August 2012 at a checkpoint in a contested space west of Damascus. “We’ve remained dedicated to returning him to his household,” he stated.
Tice, who’s from Houston, has had his work printed by the Washington Put up, McClatchy newspapers and different shops.
In a assertion to the Put up, his mother and father, Marc and Debra Tice on Sunday stated they had been “eagerly anticipating seeing Austin stroll free”, including: “We’re asking anybody who can accomplish that to please help Austin so he can safely return house to his household.”
The household stated his location remained unclear, and a US official stated there was no new proof that Tice was alive, however that they continued to function below the idea that he was. The US would proceed to work to establish the place he’s and to attempt to convey him house, the official added.
On Friday, Debra Tice advised a information convention in Washington that the household had data from a “important supply”, establishing that her son was alive. “He’s being cared for and he’s effectively – we do know that,” she stated.
Tice’s sister Naomi Tice stated in an interview with the Put up: “In chaos, there may be alternative. And I feel for lots of us, that’s actually what we’re specializing in proper now … that is such a chance to convey Austin house.”
A video launched weeks after Tice went lacking confirmed him blindfolded and held by armed males and saying, “Oh, Jesus.” He has not been heard from since. Syria has publicly denied that it was holding him.
The Tice household met this week with officers on the state division and the White Home.
Mouaz Moustafa from non-profit Syrian Emergency Job Pressure advised CBS’s Face the Nation on Sunday morning that insurgent teams had been working to seek out Tice. “He’s a hero. He went to cowl the plight of the Syrian folks from what Assad, Iran and Russia have been doing to them. And God keen, we convey him house alive, however we have to discover him and convey him to his mother, it doesn’t matter what. And the Syrians owe him a debt perpetually,” Moustafa stated.
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