the US military has transported an American out of Syria who had disappeared months ago into former president Bashar Assad’s prison system he was among the thousands released this week by rebels a Us official said Friday I was held by a Syrian man named e and he he helped me and a young woman who lives in Damascus uh get out of the prison immediately Travis Timmerman was detained after he crossed into Syria while on a Christian pilgrimage in June Timberman was cared for by a Syrian family before he returned to the US