"They've left me behind," Paul Whelan says from inside Russian prison
American Paul Whelan, imprisoned in Russia for 5 years, says it's "unfathomable to me that they've left me behind."
Based in the CBS News London bureau since 2006, Tucker Reals graduated from the University of Missouri-Columbia in 2000 with a degree in broadcast journalism. He started his career that year at The Associated Press Television News' broadcast hub for the Americas in Washington, D.C., before moving to its global headquarters in London. His career has been shaped by and focused largely on geopolitics and conflict in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks on the United States.
American Paul Whelan, imprisoned in Russia for 5 years, says it's "unfathomable to me that they've left me behind."
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