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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 맞고 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, 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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KARACHI — Pakistan is warning that the Taliban are plotting to secure the freedom of Osama bin Laden’s wives and children by kidnapping a high-ranking government official and then offering to exchange him or her for the slain terror chief’s family. U.S. Navy seals killed bin Laden in a May helicopter-borne raid on his house in northwestern Pakistan. They took the corpse with them, but left at least two of his wives and several children in the house. They were detained by Pakistani authorities. Pakistan’s interior ministry warned of the purported kidnap plot in a letter that was sent to top security officials on Aug 23 — just three days before gunmen seized Shahbaz Taseer, the son of a wealthy provincial governor who was killed by an Islamist militant earlier this year. Interior Minister Rehman Malik said there was no evidence that the group that had seized Taseer from the streets of the Punjab provincial capital, Lahore, was hoping to exchange him for bin Laden’s family members. An Associated Press reported obtained a copy of the letter, stamped “secret” on Friday. It said the information that led to the warning was reliable. It doesn’t say which Pakistani official the Taliban plan to kidnap, but said the most likely location was one of the country’s four provincial capitals. Pakistan has reportedly released Taliban prisoners before in exchange for kidnapped government...

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