American Travis Timmerman flown out of Syria after release from prison
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Travis Timmerman, the American who said he was freed from a Syrian prison amid the downfall of ousted President Bashar al-Assad's dictatorship, was taken out of the country by the U.S. military, a U.S. defense official confirmed to CBS News on Friday.
Timmerman, 29, who disappeared into Syria's notorious prison system about seven months ago, was taken to the Al Tanf U.S. military base and then flown out of Syria via helicopter and handed over to the U.S. State Department. A second defense official told CBS News he was flown to Jordan.
Mouaz Moustafa, director of the Washington, D.C.-based Syrian Emergency Task Force who worked with rebels to arrange Timmerman's transfer back to safety, shared a photo of the handoff of Timmerman to U.S. forces.
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