The most heartbreaking story out of the Syrian revolution last week was the opening of the prisons. Over 130,000 people had disappeared into the Syrian prison system, notorious for torturing and killing inmates. As rebels began freeing prisoners who had been held incommunicado for years or even decades, the families of other missing persons scoured government buildings, desperately trying to find out if their loved ones were still alive.
Last Tuesday, CNN claimed to have captured the moment one such missing person was found. While touring the basement of Syria's Air Force Intelligence Directorate alongside Syrian rebels, CNN Chief International Correspondent Clarissa Ward saw something underneath a blanket in a locked cell. One of her rebel escorts shot the lock off the door and lifted the blanket, revealing a terrified man who shouted, "I'm a civilian!"
