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October 12, 2012
Robert Siegel talks with Obaida Hitto, a 25-year-old Syrian American from Texas who spent five months assisting the Free Syrian Army in Deir al-Zour on the Euphrates River, near the border of Iraq. He was injured in a mortar attack by Bashar Assad's forces at the end of September and is now recovering in Istanbul.
