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https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/american-travis-timmerman-found-syria-imprisoned-austin-tice-assad-rcna183923
NBC News
American man found in Syria after being imprisoned for months
Dec. 12, 2024, 3:13 AM PST / Updated Dec. 12, 2024, 5:09 AM PST
By Matt Bradley, Richard Engel and Chantal Da Silva
DAMASCUS, Syria — A Missouri man found in Syria told NBC News on Thursday he spent months in a Syrian prison after he crossed into the country on a "pilgrimage" to Damascus. It was not widely known that the man, who identified himself as Travis Timmerman and disappeared in Hungary in May, was in Syria.
His discovery came as a shock to locals and journalists as thousands of detainees emerged from jails after the overthrow of President Bashar al-Assad over the weekend.
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Timmerman, who initially identified himself only as “Travis,” was first seen in a video that emerged overnight that led some to misidentify him as missing American journalist Austin Tice, 43.
Surrounded by reporters as he leaned against walls with flaking paint, Timmerman, 29, said Syrian officials stopped him this year after he had crossed into the country on foot.
"I was on a pilgrimage to Damascus," he told NBC News in a building on the outskirts of the capital. He said he had spent three days living in a mountain area around the border between Lebanon and Syria "without food and water" before he was spotted by a border guard and detained.
Timmerman said the regime imprisoned him for months, during which "I was fed well, I always had water, the only difficulty was not being able to go to the bathroom" regularly.
Rebel forces released him as they broke into regime prisons across the country to free detainees.
Timmerman said he had spent the past few days wandering the streets barefoot, sleeping outside and in an abandoned house. He was found once again by a local he asked for water and subsequently appeared in the video that quickly spread across social media and drew the media's attention.
After he was located by NBC News and other outlets in Dhiyabia, Timmerman said he had “been reading the scripture a lot” before he decided to cross the mountains from Lebanon into Syria. He appeared calm.
When a man repeatedly offered to put him in touch with U.S. officials, he replied that he was "OK for right now."
He later told NBC News that he felt his imprisonment was "actually good for me," describing it as "a time of solace, of meditation, and I'm stronger for it."
He said that he plans to go to Jordan before he tries to return to Damascus and that he would look to get in touch with his family, whom he said he had not spoken with yet.
A U.S. official said Washington was "aware of reports of an American found outside of Damascus and seeking to provide support. Out of respect for his privacy, we have no further information to provide at this time."
Timmerman said he had been in Europe before he embarked on his pilgrimage.
Authorities in Missouri and the Hungarian capital, Budapest, had put out missing person reports this year for a man named Pete Timmerman, whom Hungarian police identified as “Travis” Pete Timmerman.
The Missouri State Highway Patrol said in a public awareness bulletin that Timmerman disappeared from Budapest on May 28, just under seven months ago.
Authorities in Budapest had identified Timmerman in a request for information as “Travis Pete Timmerman.” They said he was last seen at a church and had since “left for an unknown location, with no sign of life.”
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https://www.cbsnews.com/news/travis-timmerman-syria-american-man-found-freed-prison-assad-ouster/
CBS NEWS
Man identifying himself as American Travis Timmerman found in Syria after being freed from prison
By Haley Ott
Updated on: December 13, 2024 / 12:20 AM EST / CBS News
Timmerman said he had gone to Syria for Christian "spiritual purposes" and that his experience in prison "wasn't too bad."
"I was never beaten. The only really bad part was that I couldn't go to the bathroom when I wanted to. I was only let out three times a day to go to the bathroom," he said.
Timmerman said he left the prison with a large group and started walking away.
IMDb
The Seventh Sign (1988)
Quotes
[while watching the news]
David Bannon: So much misery, man against man. They kill each other. They have no faith. I used to think the world would change. But it hasn't.
Abby: No, I guess it hasn't.
From 4/1/1988 ( ) To 12/12/2024 ( ) is 13404 days
13404 = 6702 + 6702
From 11/2/1965 ( ) To 3/9/1984 ( ) is 6702 days
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096073/releaseinfo/
IMDb
The Seventh Sign (1988)
Release info
United States April 1, 1988
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087050/releaseinfo/
IMDb
Children of the Corn (1984)
Release info
United States March 9, 1984
IMDb
Children of the Corn (1984)
Quotes
Burt Robeson: I spy, with my little eye, something that starts with C.
Vicky: Corn.
From 7/19/1989 ( the United Airlines Flight 232 crash in Sioux City Iowa and from the thoughts in my conscious mind, coinciding with United States of America Veterans Affairs hospital psychiatric doctor medical drugs: the end of Kerry Burgess - *me* - the natural human being cloned from another human being {Thomas Reagan} ) To 12/12/2024 ( ) is 12930 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 3/28/2001 ( The United States declares its intention to end involvement in the Kyoto Protocol ) is 12930 days
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2001/mar/29/globalwarming.usnews
The Guardian
Bush kills global warming treaty
Special report: George Bush's America
Special report: global warming
Julian Borger in Washington
Thu 29 Mar 2001 03.28 EST
The Bush administration yesterday appeared to end all hope of reviving the Kyoto treaty on global warming, declaring it had "no interest" in its implementation and taking the first steps towards withdrawing the US signature on the accord.
Kyoto's death warrant, announced by Christine Todd Whitman, head of the environmental protection agency (EPA), represented a blunt rebuff to European hopes of establishing a global programme to slow down the emission of greenhouse gases, amid startling new evidence of rapid climate change.
from my private journal, as me, Kerry Burgess, typed after being released from the USA Veterans Affairs psychiatric hospital enduring many months sitting in a grungy two-computer room in a homeless shelter on the waterfront in downtown Seattle:
From: Kerry Burgess
Sent: Friday, March 24, 2006 5:19 PM
To: Kerry Burgess
Subject: Re: Sleep journal 3/24/06
Sometimes I wonder if they are controlling me in what little sleep I get. Controlling me in the sense of discouraging me from leaving this place to go live in the woods somewhere. I feel like I should feel a lot worse than I do now. If I left this place for the woods, I could build some kind of platform in a tall tree where I could get some sound sleep. Leaving here though would take me out of this system, this program. I would transition into a lower state of homelessness, instead of making upward progress as this program provides. The only way to get back into a program like this, if I left, would be to go back to the VA for treatment, but I suspect they would turn me away because I can't make the copayments. I just want to sleep and know that no one is trying to screw with my mind.
Kerry Burgess wrote:
Can't remember what I dreamt of last night. Feel like it was important, that I should record it, but I can't remember now. That probably means it wasn't a foreign dream though. I think I always remember the foreign dream. Unless they are getting better at making them less distinquishable as foreign versus natural dreams. I am dying for a good nights sleep. I can only sleep for a short period at any time of the day before something wakes me up and I can't go back to sleep. For one thing, I feel like there is a hidden camera in one of the fire detectors in the ceiling, or in someother place that I don't expect it to be. For another, people make a lot of noise around here. If it isn't somebody snoring, it's somebody rustling through a plastic bag, or loud conversations. I can't sleep with my headphones on because I have to stay on my back and then the flourescent light is glaring in my eyes, which I can't turn off.
From 6/12/1946 ( premiere USA film "Somewhere in the Night" ) To 7/22/2005 ( as me, Kerry Burgess, from my official records United States Veterans Affairs psychiatric-hospital in Seattle: "Mr. Burgess checked into Urgent Care this AM complaining of constipation" - Psychiatry Emergency Services ) is 21590 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 12/12/2024 ( ) is 21590 days
From 10/28/1944 ( ) To 12/8/2003 ( premiere USA TV miniseries "Battlestar Galactica" ) is 21590 days
From 11/2/1965 ( ) To 12/12/2024 ( ) is 21590 days
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Albacore_(SS-218)
https://www.midway-island.com/chronology-of-events/
Stargate: Atlantis
"The Intruder"
TV-series season 2 episode 2, 07/22/2005
HERMIOD: What are you doing?
McKAY: I'm just checking something -- I'm sure it is impossible. (He activates some controls and the ones and zeros turn into a type of writing.)
McKAY: Crap!
HERMIOD: What did you do?
McKAY: I just ran it through a translation programme -- it's Wraith.
(Hermiod turns and looks at the Wraith writing which is now on his screen, then turns back to Rodney.)
HERMIOD: 'Crap' indeed.
From 6/17/1972 ( the Watergate burglary ) To 7/22/2005 ( ) is 12088 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 12/7/1998 ( as Kerry Burgess my first day as full-time employee of Microsoft Corporation in Seattle until 02/06/2004 ) is 12088 days
From 8/13/1982 ( premiere USA film "Fast Times At Ridgemont High" ) To 7/22/2005 ( ) is 8379 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 10/11/1988 ( premiere USA TV series episode "Nova"::"Can the Next President Win the Space Race?" ) is 8379 days
From 12/25/1981 ( premiere USA film "Modern Problems" ) To 7/22/2005 ( as Kerry Burgess from my official records United States Veterans Affairs hospital in Seattle: "Mr. Burgess checked into Urgent Care this AM complaining of constipation" - Psychiatry Emergency Services ) is 8610 days
8610 = 4305 + 4305
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 8/16/1977 ( Elvis Presley dead ) is 4305 days
From 7/16/1963 ( ) To 4/4/2003 ( Paul Ray Smith the United States Army soldier and posthumous notable recipient of the USA Medal of Honor was killed in action ) is 14507 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 7/22/2005 ( ) is 14507 days
From 1/17/1991 ( from the thoughts in my conscious mind, coinciding with United States of America Veterans Affairs hospital psychiatric doctor medical drugs: the date of record of my United States Navy Medal of Honor as Kerry Wayne Burgess chief warrant officer United States Marine Corps circa 1991 officially the United States Apache attack helicopter pilot ) To 7/22/2005 ( ) is 5300 days
5300 = 2650 + 2650
From 11/2/1965 ( me ) To 2/3/1973 ( premiere USA TV series episode "The Mary Tyler Moore Show"::"What Do You Do When the Boss Says, "I Love You"?" ) is 2650 days
From 4/18/1947 ( the discovery of the Australopithecus africanus skull in Africa ) To 7/22/2005 ( ) is 21280 days
21280 = 10640 + 10640
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 12/20/1994 ( from the thoughts in my conscious mind, coinciding with United States of America Veterans Affairs hospital psychiatric doctor medical drugs: in non-aviator related duties boots on the ground in Bosnia as Kerry Wayne Burgess the United States Marine Corps captain this day is my United States Navy Cross medal date of record ) is 10640 days
From 4/2/1968 ( premiere USA film "2001: A Space Odyssey" ) To 7/22/2005 ( ) is 13625 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 2/21/2003 ( premiere USA film "Gods and Generals" ) is 13625 days
From 10/1/1995 ( premiere USA TV series episode "Space: Above and Beyond"::"The Farthest Man from Home" ) To 7/22/2005 ( ) is 3582 days
3582 = 1791 + 1791
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 9/28/1970 ( Richard Nixon, 37th President of USA: Remarks Following Meeting With Pope {Superstition, as are any clergy of religion ; peddlers of bunk to cowards terrified cowardly of mortality} Paul VI in the Vatican ) is 1791 days
From 12/12/1942 ( the fictional date setting 1946 film "Somewhere in the Night" ) To 7/22/2005 ( ) is 22868 days
22868 = 11434 + 11434
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 2/21/1997 ( the landing of the US space shuttle Discovery orbiter vehicle mission STS-82 includes me Kerry Wayne Burgess the United States Marine Corps commissioned-officer and United States STS-82 pilot astronaut and my 4th official United States of America National Aeronautics Space Administration orbital flight of 4 overall ) is 11434 days
From 6/26/1981 ( premiere USA film "Stripes" ) To 7/22/2005 ( ) is 8792 days
8792 = 4396 + 4396
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 11/15/1977 ( premiere US film "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" ) is 4396 days
From 5/4/1974 ( Richard Nixon, 37th President of USA: Remarks Opening Expo '74, Spokane, Washington ) To 7/22/2005 ( ) is 11402 days
11402 = 5701 + 5701
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 6/12/1981 ( premiere USA film "Raiders of the Lost Ark" ) is 5701 days
From 2/4/1955 ( premiere US film "Dear Phoebe"::"Mind Over Muscle" ) To 10/24/1994 ( premiere USA film "Stargate" ) is 14507 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 7/22/2005 ( ) is 14507 days
From 10/24/1994 ( premiere USA film "Stargate" ) To 7/22/2005 ( ) is 3924 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 7/31/1976 ( the so-called "Face on Mars" photograph released to the public by US NASA ) is 3924 days
From 7/19/1989 ( the United Airlines Flight 232 crash in Sioux City Iowa and from the thoughts in my conscious mind, coinciding with United States of America Veterans Affairs hospital psychiatric doctor medical drugs: the end of Kerry Burgess - *me* - the natural human being cloned from another human being {Thomas Reagan} - or something ) To 7/22/2005 ( ) is 5847 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 11/5/1981 ( premiere USA TV series episode "Magnum, P.I."::"Memories Are Forever" ) is 5847 days
- by me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, posted by me: 11:29 PM Pacific-timezone USA Thursday 12/12/2024
