Michael Moynihan
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You're not being tortured. You're in the middle of the day. You've maybe just eaten. No one's bothering you in your cell. What are you thinking? What does the brain do in that period? I remember, I think that you told me one time you were writing in your head. Yeah. That you were writing novels in your head.
Were you writing in a sort of code or just anything?
Were you writing in a sort of code or just anything?
Were you writing in a sort of code or just anything?
So you didn't know, this is a couple of hours, maybe an hour, a couple of hours before you released and you had no idea. Right. None.
So you didn't know, this is a couple of hours, maybe an hour, a couple of hours before you released and you had no idea. Right. None.
So you didn't know, this is a couple of hours, maybe an hour, a couple of hours before you released and you had no idea. Right. None.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And so they drove you to the border?
And so they drove you to the border?
And so they drove you to the border?
The people that drove you were the people you knew, the captors that you saw all the time.
The people that drove you were the people you knew, the captors that you saw all the time.
The people that drove you were the people you knew, the captors that you saw all the time.
Let me ask you one more thing about the future of Syria. I mean, I'm blown away that we started talking and you told me that you've seen your captors on CNN, people that you saw in your torture cells that are active in the current, shall we say, interim Syrian government. That must terrify you in some ways.
Let me ask you one more thing about the future of Syria. I mean, I'm blown away that we started talking and you told me that you've seen your captors on CNN, people that you saw in your torture cells that are active in the current, shall we say, interim Syrian government. That must terrify you in some ways.
Let me ask you one more thing about the future of Syria. I mean, I'm blown away that we started talking and you told me that you've seen your captors on CNN, people that you saw in your torture cells that are active in the current, shall we say, interim Syrian government. That must terrify you in some ways.
And you think that this current iteration of the Syrian government, whatever it is, that this is a bunch of spin propaganda lies that Jalani and the al-Nusra people have reformed? How much faith do you put in that?