Arab, Iraqi 'Terrorists' Say They Received Training in Syria
Baghdad Al-Iraqiyah Television in Arabic 1800 GMT 23 Feb 05
[Report] Baghdad Al-Iraqiyah Television in Arabic at 1800-1900 GMT on 23
February carries a program featuring confessions by four Sudanese, three
Egyptians, and three Iraqis, all of whom are members of the Liberation Army
[Jaysh al-Tahrir] operating in Iraq and who have been recently arrested.
Most of those apprehended say they received training in Syria.
The interrogator, who does not appear on the screen, begins by saying:
"Dear viewers in our beloved Iraq, in wounded Iraq where all the forces of
repression have ganged up against it, we will show you today the so-called
commander of the Liberation Army, the army that comprises Sudanese,
Egyptian, and other Arabs who reside in Iraq and who were recruited by the
Syrian intelligence to slaughter this people, obliterate their identity, and
deepen their already serious wounds. We now have the commander of the Jaysh
al-Tahrir."
The interrogator asks him to give his name, and the Jaysh al-Tahrir
commander says that his name is Qadim al-Duma Umar; he is a Sudanese from
Al-Fashir area in Sudan and was born in 1964. Umar adds that "he has been in
Iraq for the past 15 years" and he used to work in the antiquities
department, but then moved to work in a restaurant called the Cairo
restaurant," adding: "I joined Jaysh al-Tahrir Command in Latakiya one year
ago." Asked to confirm whether he meant Latakia in Syria, Umar replies: "Yes
in Syria." Asked who recruited him, Umar says: "I do not know his name in
full but we called him Abu-Bakr." On how he met Abu-Bakr, Umar says: "He met
us on the Syrian-Iraqi borders. He took us from there to the camps in
Latakia where we were recruited as members of the Jaysh al-Tahrir." Asked
whether he met any Syrian intelligence officers, Umar says: "I used to meet
with them, but I did not know their names. Abu-Bakr was the official who was
directly responsible for us." Asked about his role within the group, Umar
says: "We used to be divided into two groups, the group that carries out
slaughtering operations and the group that carries out explosions." Asked
about the tasks he had to carry out in Iraq, Umar says: "Every commander had
to kill 10 people or more. My task was to shoot 10 soldiers and not to
slaughter them for I was the commander." Asked whether he knew those he
killed, Umar says: "They were soldiers, but I did not know them personally.
I did not know whether they were Iraqi or US soldiers." Umar says that "he
was relieved of his duties because he failed to train as many recruits as
possible. They wanted me to recruit all the Arabs that were there but I
could not carry out such a task." Asked how many persons he has personally
killed, Umar says: "The number of those I killed directly by opening fire on
them is 10." The interrogator, addressing Umar says: "Yesterday, the
criminals, and the defendants who confessed said that they used to slaughter
sheep or any other animal during their training in Latakia. According to the
other confessions and the accurate information I got from the defendants
whom we see seated behind you, the training to slaughter people used to take
place on real people who were kidnapped from Iraq or were brother Syrians
who were sentenced to death, and that you all in the Latakia camp were the
first to have volunteered to slaughter people." Umar replies: "Sir, the word
slaughtering is a general term, comprising killing by shooting or
slaughtering with a knife." He added that in light of this concept, "I was
the first to volunteer to kill people by shooting them." Asked how many he
killed while in Latakia camp, Umar says: "There was no one there to be
shot."
Umar then speaks about the group that carries out explosion. He says
this group planted explosives to kill US soldiers. Asked about "financing
and how was he paid, how much his salary was and that of the members of the
group", Umar says that the person who used to contact him, whose name he
does not know "used to make him promises at first. Umar says: "The first
time, he promised to give me sums of money if I succeed to recruit the
largest group possible." He told me: "I will give you $10,000 for each
person that you recruit. He used to make promises but he never paid
anything." He added that "he used to give us very modest sums of money so
that we can start carrying out the operation and that he will pay us the
entire sum later. We kept waiting for the money, which never came."
Concluding, Umar says that he regrets his actions against the Iraqis and
calls on them "to unite, act as one family, close rank, and open your eyes
and be wary of foreigners so that you may protect your country from the
evildoers."
The second one to be interviewed says he is a 38-year old Sudanese named
Muhammad Hammud Muhammad Musa. He says that he is a member of "Jaysh
al-Tahrir and Jihad," adding that he has been working for this group for a
long time and does not know exactly how many years he has been a member of
this group." Asked whether he ever traveled to Syria, Musa says: "No, I did
not go to Syria." Asked where he was trained, Musa says he was trained in
Iraq by Iraqis. Musa then speaks about the "terrorist" operations he carried
out in Iraq and says "he slaughtered four" and "the slaughtering operations
used to take place in different places, which we did not know where they are
exactly" and that "they used to specify the location and tell us to come and
slaughter the people they used to bring us." Asked about what type of
instructions he used to get from the Syrian intelligence, Musa says: "We
used to get our instructions from Adam," whose full name is not mentioned.
The third one to be interviewed gives his name as Uthman Musa
Abd-Al-Qadir, a 30-year old Sudanese who joined "Jaysh al-Tahrir six months
ago." Asked whether he knows which country backs Jaysh al-Tahrir,
Abd-al-Qadir says: "I receive orders from Muhammad Duma; he is the head of
the Jaysh al-Tahrir. I receive orders from Muhammad and I carry out what
they order me to do," adding: "I heard that it belongs to Syria" and that he
was trained in Iraq to carry out car bomb explosions by remote control.
Abd-al-Qadir says: "I slaughtered more than 10 Iraqis." He says: "I carried
out three car bomb operations" and that they used to rent the cars they use
for their operations. Abd-al-Qadir then speaks about the various explosions
for which he was responsible and their locations.
The fourth to be interviewed gives his name as Muhamad Samir Muhammad
Ramadan. He says that he is an Egyptian and was born in 1961. He is married
and is a member of Jaysh al-Tahrir and that Ahmad Ibrahim al-Turki is the
leader of his group. He speaks about the operations in which he participated
and says: "We killed six national guard elements at UR hotel." He adds: "We
slaughtered them" and that the operation took place two months ago.
A fifth person called Zaka al-Din Abd-al-Fattah Sulayman says he is an
Egyptian and was born in 1958. He says: I am a member of the group that is
headed by Ahmad Ibrahim al-Turk and this group is a group of Jaysh
al-Tahrir." Sulayman says that "this group is responsible for carrying out
sabotage operations. Asked whether he received training outside Iraq,
Sulayman says: "I received training outside Iraq in Latakia in Syria."
Sulayman says that he was one of three who slaughtered the six national
guards at UR hotel and that this was the only operation in which he
participated after his training.
A sixth person, Mustafa al-Sayyid al-Madbuli, an Egyptian from Damiati,
born in 1962, says he has been living in Iraq for some 20 years and that he
is also a member of Jaysh al-Tahrir. Asked where he received his training,
Al-Madbuli says: "I was trained in Latakia in Syria." Asked what kind of
training he received, Al-Madbuli says: "We spent six months there to receive
training on how to kill and kidnap people in addition to carrying out
explosions." Al-Madbuli says he was the third in the group who killed the
six national guards at UR hotel.
The seventh, a Sudanese, whose name is not given, says he was born in
1959. He says he has been in Iraq for 17 years and belongs to Jaysh
al-Tahrir and "I was trained in Latakia." He says he was trained to carry
out explosions and speaks about the operations he carried out in Iraq. He
says they "gave us $200 and promised to give us more money, but this never
happened." He says he carried only one operation at "Al-Jisr al-Atiq" and
concludes by saying that he regrets his actions.
The eighth person is Kan'an Ayid [remaining part of name indistinct],
who says that he lives in Mosul, is not married, and was born in 1973. He
adds that he is a member of Jaysh al-Tahrir, and the person to whom he
directly reports is Salim Mulla Ali. He speaks about the operations he
carried out and says he raped two women in Baghdad and did not receive any
training outside of Iraq. Asked to give more details about the "terrorist
operations they carried out, he says: "We used to kidnap members of the
police and the National Guard under the threat of arms and slaughter them."
He says that his group killed eight policemen and six National Guard
members.
Another Iraqi says his name is Ali Kazim Rashid, lives in Kirkuk, was
born in 1969, and used to work as a guard at the Al-Hadba hotel where he was
arrested. Rashid says that he is a member of Jaysh al-Tahrir. Asked whether
he knows for which party this group works, Rashid says: "As Kan'an told me
it belongs to the Syrian intelligence," adding that he was not trained
abroad, did not visit Syria, or meet with Syrian intelligence officers. He
says he participated in the killing of the six policemen and eight members
of the National Guard and raped the two women mentioned by Kan'an.
The last person whose name is indistinct says he is 30 years old and
from Baghdad and works as a cameraman with the Jaysh al-Tahrir. He says that
he filmed the slaughtering operation of the eight policemen and the six
members of the National Guard, adding: "I did not participate in the
slaughtering operations. I just filmed the incident."
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