brahim will leave for college in the summer.he united states military academy at west point. >> i shed some tears. because they're going to make me cry. >> oh, my gosh. >> what you going to tell brahimo graduation day? >> that i love him, that i couldn't be more proud of him. >> he's doing a family tree changer. i never had an opportunity to go to west point. he's better than me. connie's trying to go to college right now to do her career. and one day we'll probably be working for our own son. >> reporter: in charlotte, north carolina, diane gallagher, cnn. >> that is a beautiful story. so much straight ahead in the "newsroom." first, here's how you can help our 2017 top ten cnn heroes continue their very important work. >> i'm anderson cooper. each of these year's top ten cnn heroes proves that one person really can make a difference and again this year we're making it easy for you to support they great work. just go to cnnheroes.com and click donate beneath any 2017 top ten cnn hero to make a dire direct contribution. you'll r

in a brahim opinion it was urgent for ten months similar attacks had taken place in rebel held areas ibrahim believed that the regime was testing barack obama that the bombing of sara kiba could be a precursor to a larger attack. on august twenty first twenty thirteen his worst fears came true. i chemical attack killed hundreds of people in a hotel in the suburbs of damascus the majority of casualties were civilians ibrahim's investigation hadn't stopped the massacre from happening but he had one last hope that sells times reports could point a finger towards those responsible the report was issued to the united nations six months later the use of chemical weapons etc and who was confirmed but those responsible were not named barack obama would not intervene unfortunately all the work that he had carried out we couldn't just take his information and bring that in tora fort it was not a phone chain of custody and that means that. in the event that was followed could not be guaranteed that all the steps was was covered from the start on until it reached us or our table it was not like

of brahim was guided by residence to the location of the strikes surrounded by debris he started recording the evidence. just. yet it's a three by us doing something with the. kids . i hadn't a tool was so dull without them and shanghvi mr. ebrahim recovered an unexploded grenades which he believed to contain saddam gassed it was confirmed by these amateur videos filmed by a local camera man at the hospital inside just after the attack the symptoms left no doubt nausea vomiting and suffocation chemical weapons had been used. for morning everybody for barack obama it was the red line that could not be crossed the united states had promised to intervene if there was proof that bashar assad was using chemical weapons the following day the u.s. president spoke to the press ibrahim was convinced that the course of the war would change what we now have is evidence that chemical weapons have been used inside of syria but we don't know how they were used when they were used who used them we don't have a chain of. custody that establishes what exactly happened. and i'll be back in the one night or

but this bites his suffering brahim insists his time in jail made him stronger despite the darkest of moments and the torture he gained something invaluable in the process i look at the bright side of it that yes if i didn't go to prison i wouldn't have seen all the torture that happens i wouldn't have seen all the you know violation to human rights that's happening in egypt i wouldn't have won the start of all of that in one hundred years if you were to give me it so for me to be able to gain that experience was very helpful for me tell us what are you trying to do in order to give back some sort of. normal kind of affect your life to sit with mom and have a laugh and have a smile we have had been so long so that for me is a lot my family are helping me cure with a lot of counseling i will smith start get probably counseling because all the flashbacks that are happening with me my g.p. just doesn't recommend it right now at the moment but seeing my friends and going out and live in freedom yet a lot of the time i just think of the oppressed people are left behind and that's what i th

between the old generation and the new, which is the case of brahim, revealed before, who was guantanamo detainee who left into syria in 2013 and created this and succeeded to attract hundreds of moroccans from hundreds of generations, old and new generation but accept him, those in prison, belongs to the old -- became now old-fashioned, conflict or tense relation with this new generation. can we draw or define this new generation? i think it's complex. they belong to dirt categories. also different from divisions from morocco. we can draw a large or a property for this category. it's mainly we can say that 70% of them at least are young male between 18 and 24 who lives in marginalized area at the outskirt of big and medium cities who have formal religious knowledge, education. and more importantly, who works in unstable activities at the informal economic sector. this is a very important element. most radicals works as street vendo vendors, employers, stuff like that. for instance, for example, just for the case of street vendors, in permanent conflict with local authorities because it'