In comments televised on Syria’s national television on Friday, Ammar Ziyad al-Najjar admitted that he was involved in a group that received instructions on how to kidnap people and blame it on the Syrian government, Syria’s official news agency SANA reported.
The man also confessed to, among other crimes, purchasing firearms and distributing them.
He also recounted how groups of outsiders, many of whom not Syrians, showed up during the attacks on police stations in Hama.
Najjar said the men would distribute food and drink to demonstrators, sometimes slipping money into the food to encourage protests and adding stimulant powders at other times.
There was another type of pills that made people more aggressive — pills that were given openly to members of the foreign-backed terror squads, he explained.
Syrian state television has also broadcast other reports showing seized weapons caches and confessions by terrorist elements describing how they obtained arms from foreign sources.
Syria has been experiencing unrest since mid-March, with demonstrations being held both against and in support of the country’s President Bashar al-Assad’s government.
According to the Syrian government, unknown gangs are responsible for the deaths and are the driving factor behind the unrest in the country.
The Syrian government says that the chaos is being orchestrated from outside the country and security forces have been given clear instructions not to harm civilians.
MRS/JG/HJL
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/197314.html, Sep 4, 2011
Leave a Reply