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New video has surfaced online showing missing American journalist Austin Tice surrounded by anonymous captors, but the brief clip sheds little light on his whereabouts or condition. Tice, a former Marine and freelance journalist who has worked for CBS and other news organizations, has been missing since August 13, when he last emailed colleagues, according to McClatchy Newspapers. Before Tice vanished outside Damascus, he had been reporting on the escalating violence in Syria as a freelance journalist. No group has claimed responsibility for his abduction so far, but U.S. State Department spokesman Victoria Nuland told reporters Monday they have an idea. More in After the Arab Spring “You know, there’s a lot of reason for the Syrian government to duck responsibility,” Nuland said, “but we continue to believe that to the best of our knowledge we think he is in Syrian government custody” – something the Assad regime denies. The video appeared on a Facebook page of one of Syrian President Bashar al Assad’s supporters, but had been on YouTube for six days prior, reports CBS News correspondent Margaret Brennan. The video shows Tice being led by men in robes carrying automatic weapons, 바카라사이트 and repeating “God is great” in Arabic. Tice is then heard saying part of an Islamic prayer in broken Arabic, and just before the end of the 47-second clip, he appears in distress, saying “Oh...

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(CBS/AP) JERUSALEM – Israel ground almost to a halt Tuesday afternoon in preparation for Yom Kippur, Judaism’s holiest day of the year. The country has completely closed its airspace to airplanes, shut down its buses and trains, and locked its border crossings in preparation the holy day, which begins Tuesday evening and ends Wednesday after sundown. Restaurants, businesses and schools closed, government ministries shuttered, and Israeli television and radio stations went silent. Highways and roads emptied of cars – a convention honored even by most secular and non-Jewish Israelis. Yom Kippur is Judaism’s day of atonement, when devout Jews ask God to forgive them for their transgressions. They refrain from eating and drinking and attend intense prayer services in synagogues. The day caps a traditional 10-day period of soul-searching that began with the holiday of Rosh Hashanah, the start of the Jewish new year. On Jewish new year, Israelis fear Iran strike This year, the day of introspection comes amid heightened speculation that an attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities could be near. When Yom Kippur comes to a close Wednesday night, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will make his way to New York to address the United Nations with one main message: Iran’s nuclear program is an existential threat to Israel, and 오산출장안마 it must be stopped. Israeli Chief Rabbi Shlomo Amar told Israel Radio that Israelis should pray this...

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