Timmerman informed news reporters that he had been imprisoned for “been reading the scripture a lot” before to choosing to cross the mountains from Lebanon into Syria. Timmerman is from Urbana, Missouri, a tiny town north of Springfield.
As hundreds of captives streamed out of cells after President Bashar al-Assad’s ouster over the weekend, his revelation shocked journalists and residents.
Although Timmerman’s family was aware that he had visited Eastern European countries, such as the Czech Republic and Hungary,
To write and study more about God and religion, they were concerned that his laptop and mobile phone could have been taken after May.
According to Rogers, the family just found out that Timmerman was in Lebanon in the last several weeks, after Missouri law enforcement’s successful communication with U.S.
