Adam Goldman and Karen DeYoung detail in the Washington Post the role of David Bradley, Chairman and Owner of the Atlantic Media Group, and how the executive worked with an unnamed FBI Agent and Ghanim Khalifa al-Kubaisi, the chief of Qatar’s intelligence service, to free Peter Theo Curtis from captivity in Syria.
The article draws from an exclusive interview Bradley gave to the Washington Post from the Atlantic’s offices in the Watergate in Washington:
“Particularly after a week marked by unspeakable tragedy, we are all relieved and grateful knowing that Theo Curtis is coming home after so much time held in the clutches of Jabhat Al-Nusrah,” the U.S. Department of State said in a press release. “Over these last two years, the United States reached out to more than two dozen countries asking for urgent help from anyone who might have tools, influence, or leverage to help secure Theo’s release and the release of any Americans held hostage in Syria.”
On Twitter, Rukmini Callimachi, foreign correspondent for The New York Times, wrote, “There is no better friend for a journalist than the Atlantic’s David Bradley on what he did to bring #TheoCurtis home.”
