Strange "jihadi" video of Austin Tice, U.S. reporter missing in Syria
Xeni Jardin
"It's like a caricature of a jihadi group. It looks like someone went to the Internet, watched pictures of Afghan mujahedeen, then copied them."—Joseph Holliday, who researches Syrian rebel groups at the Washington, DC-based Institute for the Study of War, speaking in the Washington Post about a suspicious video that has emerged of Austin Tice, a captive US journalist believed to have been kidnapped by the Syrian government.
Tice has been missing since mid-August. An article at McClatchy digs further into the details of who may have posted the video, and why observers are skeptical that this was in fact produced by anyone but parties working on behalf of the Assad regime.