bruce leshan reports matthew van dyke plans to leave next month for the syrian war zone. >> reporter: it is a long way from throw nets to assault rifles. matthew van dyke has been recharging his batteries for the last nine months in his mother's home at the delaware beaches. the baltimore man fought with the libyan rebels, was captured by gadhafi's forces and spent five months in a tripoli prison. >> i heard late at night sounds of people being violently interrogated. >> reporter: but next month he plans to go back to the war zone, this time in syria officially to shoot a documentary with an old friend, but he is prepared for the worst. >> getting captured by assad's forces as i was captured by gadhafi's forces, getting kidnapped by foreign jihaddists. >> reporter: one journalism groups has criticized van dyke's time in libya suggesting he posed as a journalist and by doing that he threatened the safety of our journalists, but van dyke adamantly denies that. >> i side with the syrian rebels. this film is to support them. if i'm captured this time, i don't want special treatment. i wan

. >> reporter: early last year matthew van dyke left his home in the united states for libya, to filmnted to help rebel forces overthrow the long time dictator moammar gadhafi. and he also made friends on a motorcycle trip in the meantime. >> i could not sit home and watch this happen to people i cared about. so i wanted to go to libya and called my girlfriend and said, you should go home from work, because i'm on the way to libya. i went. >> reporter: less than a week there, he was captured by the forces for reconnaissance mission, and he was taken to tripoli and held in solitary confinement and what he calls psychological torture in the high security prison. >> this is where i have been 85 days when i was first captured. >> reporter: there are times when he thought his life would end there. >> i thought i would be in prison for 20 or 30 years or executed. i was involved before nato was involved so i had no idea that nato was involved until i escaped prison and then i went back to the front line and continued doing it. >> reporter: after leaving libya the 23-year-old graduate of geor

it was nine months ago matthew van dyke returned home fighting those local to mohammedar qaddafi. he turned to film making to mene and we spoke by phone with him earlier this evening about why he's become such an activist. >> spent a lot of time in the region. i traveled all across north africa and the middle east. i made friends with people. i heard their stories, saw what life was like under the regimes. that laid a foundation. i saw victory in libya. i saw on the front line people fighting for their freedom. it's incredibly inspiring. i want to see that happen in syria, damascus. people need to be free to choose their own leaders. pursue hopes and dreams. >> van dyke plans to head to the area in the near future. he said no u.s. officials have contacted him about his intended travel. ahead on 11 news, faulty flush could be the least of your problems if you own a certain toilet. if you own this or a few other types of s.u.v.'s, why the carmakers want you to bring it in for a necessary fix. plus, move over, why it may pay to hand over your cell phone the next time you dine at twçç

. >> tomorrow marks the one year anniversary of matthew van dyke escaping a prison in lybia. he traveled in the middle east and had friends there. when that country's revolution start sped joined and fought with the rebels. now he plans to go to syria to make a documentary about the revolution in that country. christian sat down with him this week. you can catch that tomorrow night here on abc 2news at 11. >> wow. i go to rosedale and that's about it. >> back to school great time to get back in shape but it's also a time to work the body clock to wake up for school and layoff the junk food. . >> looking at a good start in the morning tomorrow. in to the low 60s and maybe the 80's. a quiet situation overnight tonight but what will things look like as we go into the weekend? >> and camp is over. the final day of the ripkin campre ernie graham gavea very important message when we come right back in 60 seconds. . >>> it's crunch time now for many of you as you prepare to send your kids back to school. >> that's monday. the routine of going back to school will help get them back i

. >> reporter: early last year, matthew van dyke left his home in the united states for libya to filmnd fight. he wanted to help rebel forces overthrow gadhafi. years before, he made friends with locals during a motorcycle trip across the region. >> i decided i couldn't just sit at home and watch it happen to people i cared about. i decided to go to libya. i called my girlfriend and said sorry, i'm on my way to libya and i went. >> reporter: after less than a week, he was captured by gadhafi's forces while on a mission for rebels. he was taken to tripoli and held in sol dare confinement. >> this is where i spent 85 days when i was first captured. >> reporter: there were times he thought his life would end there. >> i thought i would be in prison for 20 or 30 years or possibly executed. i was captured before nato was involved. i had no idea nato was involved. after escaping prison, i went to the front line. >> reporter: now, after leaving libya, the 33-year-old graduate of georgetown university wants to go back. this time, he's destined for syria. he's better prepared than most. >> i k