Moazzam Begg on Syria: "A No-Fly Zone Is Needed Around Idlib to Prevent "Unprecedented" Massacre"
On Friday, the United States, France and Britain carried out airstrikes against two chemical weapons storage facilities and a research center in Syria. In response to the U.S.-led strikes, Russia announced it may supply Syria with a state-of-the-art air defense system-a move likely to anger the United States and Israel. Israel has carried out more than 150 bombing raids in Syria since 2011. Just last week Israel bombed an Iranian air-defense system at a Syrian base.
We go to London to speak with Moazzam Begg. He is a former Guant'anamo detainee. He was held in extrajudicial detention by the U.S. government from 2002-2005, first in Kandahar then at Bagram airbase for approximately a year before being transferred to Guant'anamo. In 2011 and 2012 Begg made several trips to Syria to investigate reports of U.S. and U.K. rendition operations and to interview former prisoners of the Assad regime. Begg works as outreach director at the London-based organization CAGE, which advocates on behalf of victims of the War on Terror.
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