{"id":43435,"date":"2011-09-04T23:31:25","date_gmt":"2011-09-04T20:31:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishforum.com.tr\/en\/content\/?p=43435"},"modified":"2014-01-06T15:03:28","modified_gmt":"2014-01-06T13:03:28","slug":"syria-terrorist-admits-saudi-jordan-links","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2011\/09\/04\/syria-terrorist-admits-saudi-jordan-links\/","title":{"rendered":"Syria terrorist admits Saudi, Jordan links"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_43436\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-43436\" style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-43436\" title=\"Ammar Ziyad al-Najjar\" src=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Ammar-Ziyad-al-Najjar.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Ammar-Ziyad-al-Najjar.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Ammar-Ziyad-al-Najjar-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-43436\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ammar Ziyad al-Najjar (shown) confessed to collaborating with foreign agents to launch terror operations in Syria and blame them on Syrian forces.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div id=\"divLead\"><strong>Syrian officials say a captured terrorist has confessed to receiving foreign aid and instructions from contacts in Saudi Arabia and Jordan to deface Damascus.<\/strong><\/div>\n<p><strong>In comments televised on Syria&#8217;s national television on Friday, Ammar Ziyad al-Najjar admitted that he was involved in<em> a group that received instructions on how to kidnap people and blame it on the Syrian government,<\/em> Syria&#8217;s official news agency SANA reported. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The man also confessed to, among other crimes, purchasing firearms and distributing them. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>He also recounted how groups of outsiders, many of whom not Syrians, showed up during the attacks on police stations in Hama.<\/p>\n<p>Najjar said the men would distribute food and drink to demonstrators, sometimes slipping money into the food to encourage protests and adding <strong>stimulant powders <\/strong>at other times.<\/p>\n<p><strong>There was another type of pills that made people more aggressive &#8212; pills that were given openly to members of the foreign-backed terror squads, he explained. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Syria has been experiencing unrest since mid-March, with demonstrations being held both against and in support of the country&#8217;s President Bashar al-Assad&#8217;s government.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Syrian government, unknown gangs are responsible for the deaths and are the driving factor behind the unrest in the country.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>MRS\/JG\/HJL<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/detail\/197314.html,\u00a0Sep 4, 2011<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Syrian officials say a captured terrorist has confessed to receiving foreign aid and instructions from contacts in Saudi Arabia and Jordan to deface Damascus. 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