A crazed Moammar Gadhafi , who was still alive at the time but later would be killed in Libya 's uprising , was driving a getaway car . Syrian political opposition details 2011 protests in which his hands were broken . Michael Sutter : Ali Ferzat 's story offers hope for the Syrian revolution . He says meeting Ferzat is the ' human - rights - nerd version of a football player meeting LeBron ' Sutter : ' Ferzat 's hands are some of the most valuable objects in Syria '
Syrian political opposition details 2011 protests in which his hands were broken . Michael Sutter : Ali Ferzat 's story offers hope for the Syrian revolution . He says meeting Ferzat is the ' human - rights - nerd version of a football player meeting LeBron ' Sutter : ' Ferzat 's hands are some of the most valuable objects in Syria '