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CNN witnesses moment rebels free man from Syrian prison

In a report from Syria, CNN's Clarissa Ward discovers a man in a cell in a Damascus jail who claimed to be an ordinary citizen imprisoned by the regime of President Bashar al-Assad. CNN's subsequent reporting suggests the man was a former intelligence officer with the deposed regime, Salama Mohammad Salama, according to local residents.

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