Ten years ago, reporter Marine Olivier was in Libya covering the Arab Spring friend PR.

At the makeshift cafeteria, set up a couple of miles west of Sirut, a young man stands

out in the crowd of disheveled fighters.

Olivier was interviewing Olivier Milisha that had overrun Moa Market Office hometown,

and among the militia members was a medic with a distinct American accent.

What's the most complicated procedure you had to do on the film?

Actually, starting IV was the most complicated thing that I've done by myself.

Generally speaking, though, I offer a Pia assist.

I'm more of an ambulance guy than anything else.

All right, hold on.

That's Kevin Dawes, 29 years old at the time, from California.

He told Olivier Zee that he had been traveling alongside the militia for weeks.

He came to Libya as a medical aid worker, but he'd also brought a camera, hoping for a thrilling

career as a wartime journalist.

See the world, experience new things, get in way over my head, but ultimately survive.

Do well here, I think.

He was part of this band of freelancers, adventurers, medics, sometimes even fighters who wanted

to be part of the Arab Spring.

NPR correspondent Deborah Amos says Dawes got in way over his head when the story moved

to Syria and he moved with it.

And within 48 hours, after crossing into Syria, he was arrested and he was jailed for

three and a half years and tortured for the first year of his incarceration.

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