Posted on 08/08/2006 2:15:10 PM PDT by RouxStir
Captured Hizbullah Kidnapper Details Syrian, Iranian Collusion 21:53 Aug 08, '06 / 14 Av 5766 by Nissan Ratzlav-Katz
The IDF released videotaped footage of an interview with a captured Hizbullah member who was involved in the July 12th attack in which eight IDF soldiers were killed and two others kidnapped.
Chief of military intelligence, Maj.-Gen. Amos Yadlin, told cabinet ministers on Sunday that the Hizbullah terrorist had been taken prisoner during an operation in Lebanon. Soldiers Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev are still being held hostage by the Iranian-backed Hizbullah.
Among other revelations of Hizbullah recruitment and training methods, the captured terrorist, Hussein Ali Sliman, said that he and a group of 40 or 50 others travelled from Beirut to Iran by way of an unofficial Syrian air strip in 2003. He also noted that the caravan of Hizbullah vehicles crossing into Syria travelled by way of an official military lane. The trip was undertaken for one of two practical field exercises of Hizbullah terrorists under Iranian tutelage.
Sliman, age 22 from the Beirut-area Burj Al-Barajneh PLO refugee camp, was interrogated after being captured by IDF forces in an unspecified raid in Lebanon. Speaking in Arabic, the captive Hizbullah member appears to be very calm and cooperative with his off-camera interrogator in the edited recording.
Early in the interview, Sliman described how he began Hizbullah militia training activities at the age of 15, after school hours, in his home town. The training, Sliman said, lasted one and a half months, during which the youths were given military, educational and religious instruction.
Sliman: "I was young. In 2000, I took part in a combat course, after the liberation [a reference to the Israeli unilateral withdrawal from southern Lebanon in that year - ed.]."
Interrogator: "And until 2000, what did you do during that period?"
Sliman: "Nothing. Mosque attendance. Mosque attendance and lessons with the sheikh [Muslim cleric]."
After a multi-faceted 45-day combat course in the Ba'albek region of eastern Lebanon, Sliman learned how to use anti-tank weapons and eventually took part in what might be likened to a military officers course for commanders of specific districts.
When asked by his questioner if he took courses outside of Lebanon, Sliman answered, "Not a course. I took part in practical field training exercises ['war games' - ed.]. Two exercises."
Interrogator: "When was the first exercise?"
Sliman: "At the end of 2003."
Interrogator: "Where did you do it?"
Sliman: "In Iran."
Interrogator: "How did you leave for Iran?"
Sliman: "We left Beirut in cars, range rovers, other vehicles...."
Interrogator: "Hizbullah cars. It is known that military cars belong to the Hizbullah."
Sliman: "Not military vehicles, but..."
Interrogator: "But they are recognized as belonging to the Hizbullah."
Sliman: "Yes. Recognizable."
The captured Hizbullah terrorist was then asked where they went from Beirut. "From Beirut to the Damascus airport," he replied. "At the Al-Missna Crossing, by way of the military lane."
After clarifying that the group of about 50 Hizbullah terrorists traveled to Syria as a group, by way of a military crossing, the interrogator asked Sliman what they did once they reached the Damascus airport.
Sliman: "We did not enter the Damascus airport, we entered a separate area...."
Interrogator: "That is to say, unofficial."
Sliman: "Yes, unofficial."
Interrogator: "They entered the Damascus airport..."
Sliman: "An airport bus, the bus came and took us and we took off in the plane."
Interrogator: "Did they stamp your passports when you left?"
Sliman: "We didn't have any passports."
The video then cuts to a discussion of the attacks Sliman carried out once back in Lebanon. In 2005, he was part of a peripheral team assigned to prevent Israeli tanks from firing at the border town of Rajar, as another cell attempted to kill or kidnap IDF soldiers stationed on the Israeli side of the border. That operation failed. "The main goal was really not achieved," he admitted, "but the secondary goal was to land a harsh blow against the military outposts."
Regarding his part in the July 12th attack and kidnapping on the Lebanese-Israeli border, Sliman said that he was assigned to prevent the approach of IDF reinforcements from nearby military positions.
*Yawn* Do we really need any more evidence?
The UN will say that he was tortured into giving this confession.
"starting with a couple hundred of these would be the opening course of action if it was mine to make"
That might just be what Israel is waiting for. They don't want to send in soldiers to take out well fortified positions.
Drop a couple of dozen of these bad boys on them and it will be over.
that'd blow up real good
You're right and it makes me want to throw up. The "irrelevant" will be the first to wring their hands when we get attacked again. IMO, they're appeasers, cowards, worthless Americans not worthy to lick the boots of our soldiers or Israel's brave soldiers. They're American(?) hypocrites.
"How can we be...certain he's telling it straight?"
You know they're still looking for Jimmy Hoffa...and this guy seems to be quite a storyteller.
Probably it should be Tehran. That would diminish the possibility of periperal damage to people of greater importance to us, and when the Persians have been plastered, the Syrians will probable become very eager to live placidly with their neighbors.
"I think the U.S. should infer that any flights going in and out of either Syria or Iran will be downed immediately. Indefinitely."
Infer? How would they 'infer' that? Perhaps you mean 'imply'
"If they take more time and prevent 5-7 dollar gas/ global economic turmoil, i can wait a few weeks - for Israel to decimate their proxy."
Decimate means kill one in ten. I don't think 10% attrition would be nearly enough.
I meant singing, not signing.
The modern practice of waterboarding, characterized in 2005 by Porter J. Goss, former CIA director, as a "professional interrogation technique", involves tying the victim to a board with the head lower than the feet so that he or she is unable to move. A piece of cloth is held tightly over the face, and water is poured onto the cloth. Breathing is extremely difficult and the victim will be in fear of imminent death by asphyxiation. However, it is relatively difficult to aspirate a large amount of water since the lungs are higher than the mouth, and the victim is unlikely to actually die if this is done by skilled practitioners. Waterboarding may be used by captors who wish to impose anguish without leaving marks on their victims as evidence.
In the United States, military personnel are taught this technique, evidently to demonstrate how to resist enemy interrogations in the event of capture. According to Salon.com, SERE instructors shared their torture techniques with interrogators at the Guantanamo Bay detainment camp.[1]
On the 18 November 2005, Brian Ross and Richard Esposito described the CIA's "waterboarding" technique as follows in an article posted on the ABC News web site:
"The prisoner is bound to an inclined board, feet raised and head slightly below the feet. Cellophane is wrapped over the prisoner's face and water is poured over him. Unavoidably, the gag reflex kicks in and a terrifying fear of drowning leads to almost instant pleas to bring the treatment to a halt. According to the sources, CIA officers who subjected themselves to the water boarding technique lasted an average of 14 seconds before caving in. They said al Qaeda's toughest prisoner, Khalid Sheik Mohammed, won the admiration of interrogators when he was able to last over two minutes before begging to confess
Very unpleasant but highly unlikely to actually kill anyone.
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I was wondering what made him so cooperative.
(I always forget about Wikipedia...) Thanks
I loved the bit about Kalid Mohammed lasting 'a whole two minutes'.
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now lets look at this in DETAIL shall we...
'Early in the interview, Sliman described how he began Hizbullah militia training activities at the age of 15, after school hours, in his home town. The training, Sliman said, lasted one and a half months, during which the youths were given military, educational and religious instruction.'
hmmm...given military, educational and RELIGIOUS instruction. gotta love that religion of peace stuff
Sliman: "I was young. In 2000, I took part in a combat course, after the liberation [a reference to the Israeli unilateral withdrawal from southern Lebanon in that year - ed.]."
Interrogator: "And until 2000, what did you do during that period?"
Sliman: "Nothing. Mosque attendance. Mosque attendance and lessons with the sheikh [Muslim cleric]."
and some interesting FACTS HERE....
ah yes...mosque, mosque, sheik, terrorist....interesting sequence of events, dont you think?
"The United States failure to act against Iran will be seen as weakness throughout the muslim world (both arab and persian)."
Indeed. We have yet to extract a real price for Iran declaring war on us when they bombed the Marine Barracks killing 280 of our boys in what 1983? Imagine if we had bombed 10 of the mullahs palaces like we did to Khudaffi? Arabs only respect strength. When will all the peace mongers get it?
When you have underground resources all you have to do is collapse the entrances/exits and the rats are entombed.
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