The Daesh terrorist organization, which has been included in the war in Syria in 2013 to justify the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) terrorists’ presence in the region, has taken control over one third of Syria and Iraq between the years 2014 and 2017.
Daesh has been discharged by the United States and its allies since 2016, and it withdrew from the regions as it delivered them to the PKK and Peshmerga forces. The foundation of the terrorist group was laid in the Abu Ghraib prison, governed by the U.S. during the occupation of Iraq, and 70 percent of its members are foreign terrorists.
A BBC report published on Monday titled “Raqqa’s dirty secret” exposed a secret deal with the U.S. and PKK that enabled hundreds of Daesh terrorists to flee Syria’s Raqqa and “spread out across Syria, even making it as far as Turkey.”
Hundreds of Daesh terrorists escaped from Raqqa following a deal with the U.S. and the Kurdistan Worker’s Party (PKK)/Democratic Union Party (PYD). The report says that the convoy included some of the terrorist organization’s “most notorious members and dozens of foreign fighters. Some of those have spread out across Syria, even making it as far as Turkey.”
Abu Zaid, an Egyptian terrorist who was among those who were transported was arrested by the Syrian opposition at the Turkish border. Interrogated by the opposition, Abu Zaid said the transfers from Raqqa started in September and that more than 2,000 terrorists were evacuated from the city by the U.S. and the PKK. He said that the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) removed some terrorists from the region under various conditions, including organizing suicide attacks in different countries.
The PYD, the Syrian branch of the PKK, which has waged war against Turkey for more than 30 years, was among the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic forces (SDF) to take Raqqa from Daesh. The U.S. has largely ignored its links to the PKK. The PKK is listed as a terrorist organization by Turkey, the European Union and the United States.
Abu Zaid said scores of terrorists were moved from Raqqa to Hama to wage war against the Turkish Armed Forces in Idlib. “I was sent to Hama for this purpose. We reached the Turkish border after traveling only at night by the help of a trafficker for a fee of $3,500. The families of those transported from Iraq and Syria are being held hostage. Many of them are held by the U.S. and the PKK to be used in suicide attacks. Some of the terrorists taken from Raqqa are in fact kept in a military airport in Syria, which has been turned into a base by the U.S.”
The opposition members launched an operation in the region based on the Daesh terrorist’s statements, who tried to enter Turkey after being brought to Hama by the U.S., and arrested eight more terrorists who came to the border for the same purpose. The terrorists said in the interrogations that the transfer process was administrated by the U.S., not the PKK, and intelligence agents from all countries were employed in senior positions within the organization. Abu Riad, a Daesh terrorist who confessed working as the “treasurer” of the organization for one-and-a-half years, said that many suicide bomber candidates were sent to various countries by means of the U.S. intelligence in the last four months.
Stating that he built a close relation with Abu Omar al-Shishani, a so-called commander for Daesh, and some Chechens in Raqqa, Abu Riad claimed that Shishani worked for Russia for a while. Abu Riad noted that Shishani was a former sergeant in the Georgian army and worked for the Russian secret service as of the mid-1990s, and added: “The Russian secret service decided to send him to Afghanistan in 2012, but he was deployed to Syria as the war broke out in the country.”
“Daesh’s administrative mechanism is managed by intelligence services, which everybody knows after a certain point, but they have to keep silent as they fear death,” according to Abu Riad.
Families of Daesh terrorists sent from Raqqa were brought to Turkey by human traffickers. Imad, a smuggler on Turkish-Syrian border said many families wanted to leave Raqqa for Turkey in the past couple of weeks.
“This week alone, I personally oversaw the smuggling of 20. Most were foreign but there were Syrians as well,” he noted. Imad said in an interview with BBC that he charges $600 per person and a minimum of $1,500 for a family.
“We had an influx of families over the past few weeks,” he stated. “There were some large families crossing. Our job is to smuggle them through. We've had a lot of foreign families using our services.”
The smugglers said that as Turkey has increased border security, illegal border-crossing has become more difficult.
“In some areas we’re using ladders, in others we cross through a river, in other areas we're using a steep mountainous trail. It’s a miserable situation,” he concluded.