President Trump has already promised to do every thing he can to deliver house Austin Tice, the Marine veteran who vanished greater than 12 years in the past whereas working as a journalist in Syria, in response to his mother.
Trump’s individuals reached out even earlier than he re-entered the White Home on Monday — whereas President Biden did nothing throughout his 4 years in workplace, Debra Tice mentioned Sunday.
“I have great hope that the Trump administration will sincerely engage in diligent work to bring Austin home,” the hopeful-sound mother mentioned throughout her first go to to Damascus since insurgents toppled President Bashar Assad final month.
“His people have already reached out to me. I haven’t experienced that for the last four years,” she mentioned of Biden’s time in workplace.
Tice, a contract reporter, disappeared close to the Syrian capital in 2012.
He has not been heard from aside from a video launched weeks later that confirmed him blindfolded and held by armed males — and saying, “Oh, Jesus.”
Syria has publicly denied holding the Marine vet hostage.
However Debra Tice mentioned the household had data from an unidentified supply that he’s alive, resulting in her optimism that Trump will assist deliver him house.
Biden instructed reporters in December that “Assad should be held accountable” for Tice not being house, whereas solely saying that his administration had “no direct evidence” of his well-being.
Debra Tice mentioned she had a productive assembly with Ahmad al-Sharaa, the chief of Syria’s new administration, who was “dedicated and determined” to assist her get reunited along with her son, in addition to serving to others who’re nonetheless lacking.
She additionally visited two navy intelligence prisons in Syria, identified for his or her mass incarceration and systematic use of torture, which she described as an “unbelievably, horrible nightmare.”
“Austin, if you can somehow hear this, I love you. I know you’re not giving up, and neither am I,” Debra Tice mentioned.
Tice, initially from Houston, was protecting the anti-Assad rebellion in Damascus earlier than his disappearance.
He’s amongst tens of 1000’s who’ve gone lacking in Syria since 2011 when countrywide protests towards Assad spiraled right into a devastating civil struggle.
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