Ex-hostage of USA's armed and funded killers, rapists and torturers, writes about "The Land of Evil"

Recently freed, Italian war journalist Domenico Quirico writes about his ordeal at the hands of killers and torturers, the allies of the Judeo-Christian countries.  His article in today's La Stampa  is a "must read".  I detected a hint of  the phenomena known as "Stockholm Syndrome"  in parts of the narrative  where he relates his experience with the Al Qaeda affiliates Al Nusra  because the ex-hostage writes that he saw "kindness" in killers giving him the same food they ate.  

....We entered Syria on April 6 with the consent of the Free Syrian Army and under their protection, just like we had before. I wanted to get to Damascus to verify in person the updates on what appeared to be a decisive battle in this civil war. But they told us that we would have to wait a few days before being able to reach the Syrian capital and so we decided to accept their proposal to visit a city called Al Qusayr near the Lebanese border — which, at that point, was being besieged by Hezbollah, a loyal ally of Bashar al-Assad’s regime. 

We arrived in Al Qusayr with a Free Syrian Army provisions convoy. It was a long, overnight journey through the mountains, with no headlights as the regime controlled the road. We saw bombs from a MiG fighter jet near a Byzantine mill. This stretch of territory along the Orontes River has seen empires rise and fall. The battle between Ramesses II and the Hittites was fought there, and history is all around: in the hills and in the rocks. 
But during more recent history, the city had already been destroyed by aerial bombings, and so the following evening we decided to go back to where we started and try to make our journey to Damascus. 

We asked to be accompanied by men from the Free Syrian Army, and we left in a car with two people who we had shared our dinner with. We’d thought that they were both trustworthy, but it was probably they who betrayed us. As we left the city we were met by two pick-up trucks, and the men on board had their faces covered. They made us get in the trucks then they took us to a house and beat us, claiming to be policemen of the regime. 

Over the next few days, however, we discovered their lie; they were fervent Islamists who prayed to their God five times a day. On the first Friday, they listened to a sermon by a preacher who was backing the jihad against Bashar al-Assad. But the definitive proof came when we were bombed by airplanes: it was clear then that the people keeping us hostage were rebels. 

Abu Omar  
The founder and leader of the group holding us prisoner was a self-proclaimed emir called — or rather, who called himself — Abu Omar. He had formed this contingent by recruiting people from the local area; more bandits than Islamists or revolutionaries. Abu Omar uses an Islamist veil to cover his trafficking and other illicit activities, and he collaborates with the group Al Faruk who we would later be handed over to. 

Al Faruk is a very well-known outfit in the Syrian revolution. It is on the Syrian National Council and its representatives have met with European governments. It was created by a rebel general who recruited fighters from the poorest communities in the city of Homs. 

The West trusts the group but I have learned, at my own expense, that it is also an organization that exemplifies a new and alarming phenomenon within the revolution: the emergence of proto-bandit groups like in Somalia who take advantage of the Islamist label and the context of the revolution to occupy entire districts, to exact payment from the local population, to kidnap people and to fill their own pockets with money. 

Our first prison  
Initially we were kept in a house in the countryside on the outskirts of Al Qusayr. We stayed there for twenty-odd days and then ................