The Speed of Incarceration

 The Question: 

Salah’s heroic quest for speed and freedom. 

Salah was born somewhere in eastern Syria, about 280 kilometers northeast of Damascus. 

At a fairly early age, Salah wanted to be an athlete. He became the speediest runner of his native village of Deir El Zor. 

Before the age of maturity, he was allowed to drive the family truck through the hills of eastern Syria and beyond. His fasciation and love for the machine shaped many of his impossible dreams, which included wanting to become the first Syrian professional formula 1 pilot. 

Just a few years later, Salah was given his first mobile phone and was finally connected to the national Syrian cellular network and beyond. 

In his constant quest for speed; from animal speed to mechanical speed and finally electronic speed, Salah was convinced he could break the confined spatial boundaries of his geographical territory and roam through the unconfined spaces of a great and promising free world. 

Is this why Salah thought he could be a free man? 

In 2011, Salah took the very sober decision to join the freedom fighters of Deir El Zor not only to defend his village from the oppressors, but more importantly to secure his rights and his access to this promised free world. 

A few months into the battle, Salah was captured by the oppressors. After a few weeks in captivity, he was finally released in unprecedented prisoner exchange operation orchestrated by the elite National Guard brigadier general Issam Zahreddine. 

The Answer: 

The POW 08 is a self-propelled apparatus for the use of returning Prisoners of War to enemy lines. The binary nature of the device allows POW 08 to act simultaneously as an AGI [Auxiliary Gatherer of Information] over hostile territory. Sensitive INTEL [Intelligence] is gathered through Infrared live video footage which is collected on its route.