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Eyad Al-Gharib, a former member of President Assad's secret police, was convicted of facilitating the torture of prisoners and sentenced by the Koblenz state court to four-and-a-half years in prison.
Region, on this christmas eve, one small syrian town is preparing to e celebrate again after years of war in that country and our own bill nealy traveled to malula recently, restored as a safe haven for christians just in time for the holiday. >> christians in siyria have ha little to celebrate over the last eight terrible years of war, but in one small town where christians have hidden in the mountains for hundreds of years, they can now u celebrate christmas and their freedom. in the biblical landscape of a country scarred by war, lies a place almost broken by it. it's a christian town in ma...
Senior fellow at the study of foreign relations. he's back in a week long trip to iraq at invitation of the high commission for refugees. i understand you've spent time in syria where bill was. what's your take on what we just watched? >> it's actually quite a moving story that bill told. as a student during the summer of 1993 when i was studying arabic, i made a trip there. tucked away in the mountains. you can see little bit in the package that you just ran that in syria's kind of brown bra landscape, the town is painted in pastel blue and pink and the people there were wonderful. speaking a...
The way packages get to their house. what they don't see, what happens op the road, in the distribution center, in what they call the delivery stations where these packages are put on to the vans. and that's what we found reporting is that there's a really serious human toll here. they're exploited workers. there are exhausted workers. people out in the road who feel incredible pressure. they're terrified they'll lose their job if they don't deliver as many as 30 0 packages in a day. if you do that five, six days in a row week after week, that's been stents start happening because the system m...
Except from international organizations like the u.n. and its local partners, you can understand why there is so little trust and animosity and animosity towards central governments and people who have brought this misery down on the many millions who have been on the move over the course of the last decade or more. >> i can't avoid while i've got you here to say let's go to 50,000 feet. we have a different problem. that's the united states has in addition to all the problems in the area, we've also in places like syria, left a lot of space for p adversaries, iran and russia in some cases, to ...