afrinpost – Exclusive
The afrinpost reporter obtained from his reliable sources today exclusive information about the mysterious bombing that struck the village of Basuta on February 23, 2021, which led to the death of (Nawzad Akram, 45, and his cousin Haifa Qasim, 21 years old).
The sources confirmed that Nawzad was killed by a bullet in the head with a silencer, while his cousin “Haifa” was killed by a mine that the gunmen planted at the door of the room, in contrast to the story that the Turkish authorities and their militias tried to promote to cover up the crime.
The militias and its media channels had published that an explosive device had exploded with a SDF agent while he was preparing it for the purpose of carrying out operations, but the new details refute this narrative altogether.
The sources pointed out that armed men from “Hamzat” militia that occupied the village, came at night to the house of “Sharif Qasim”, with the aim of negotiating with his family for the release of their kidnapped son, “Abdo Qasim,” in exchange for a ransom payment with the mediation of “Nawzad” and they sat in a separate room in their house until late at night, during which the gunmen killed “Nawzad” with a bullet from a silenced pistol for unknown reasons (it may be due to material disputes, considering that a commercial partnership “smuggling livestock” exists between him and the militants), indicating that when the gunmen left and in order to cover the crime, they booby-trapped the door of the room, without the rest of the family noticing (all of them women) who were in another room far from them, and they also planted another explosive device (it was detonated from a distance and professionally photographed later in the morning of the same day).
The sources added that at 5:30 in the afternoon, the elderly Amina Mustafa Qasim asked her daughter Haifa to wake up “Nawzad,” thinking that he had fallen asleep after his delay in meeting with the militants.
The sources concluded by saying that, in order to hide their crime, they fabricated another explosion in the morning, and the bombing was filmed professionally in order to imply that Nawzad and his cousin Haifa are part of a sleeper cell belonging to SDF and were preparing explosive devices in order to carry out bombing operations in Afrin.
The sources indicated that another explosion occurred hours after the first bombing in the same house, and according to the video circulating (below), an explosive device was detonated remotely by the Turkish authorities and its militias, and the operation was filmed with complete professionalism, where the explosion was accompanied by the sounds of takbeers.
