Afrinpost-Al-Arabia
The Moroccan leader in the Al-Nusra Front, Issam Al-Hana, known as Abu Mansour Al-Maghrabi, who was arrested in Iraq, revealed his contact with Qatari external parties to support the organization, the most prominent of which is the Qatari sheikh, Khaled Suleiman, who was financing the Nusra Front with one million dollars a month.
Issam Al-Hana also spoke about the nature of his work with the Turkish side, and he said that he relied on coordination to recruit ISIS fighters and bring them across the Turkish border and treat the organization’s wounded in hospitals inside Turkey, as well as his role in negotiating between Turkey and ISIS to exchange about 450 elements of the organization in exchange for the release of The Turkish consul and some diplomats in 2014, according to the newspaper, “The Iraqi Judiciary” of the Iraqi Supreme Judicial Council.
The newspaper revealed that the leader in Al-Nusra is 35 years old, a computer engineer from the Moroccan city of Rabat, and joined terrorist organizations in 2012, and he speaks in addition to the Arabic, Spanish, English and French languages, which prompted the leaders of ISIS to assign him to the foreign relations file because he mastered several languages that enabled him from communicating with different people. ”
He pointed out that “his work regarding the Turkish side depends on coordination to bring immigrants into the ranks of the organization across the Turkish border, and to treat the wounded of the organization in certain hospitals within Turkish territory, and the second axis is negotiating to exchange the prisoners of the organization against the Turkish prisoners who were with ISIS, including the Consul and a group of Diplomats. ”
He added that “the most prominent exchange deals that were conducted are the exchange process of handing over the Turkish consul and diplomats in 2014 in exchange for the release of 450 members of the organization, who were detained by the Turkish authorities, most notably Abu Hani Al-Libani, a Danish of Lebanese origin, who is the official of the Industrialization and Development Authority, and others.” .
With regard to the Qatari role in supporting terrorist organizations, the leader Issam Al Hana notes that he will later move to Jabhat al-Nusra; Because of differences with the leaders of ISIS, as he received great attention, and was an active factor in the external coordination committees.
He continued: “I was communicating with external parties, including Qatari, to obtain financial financing, including Sheikh Khaled Suleiman, who is a Qatari who was providing us a million dollars a month, in addition to Israeli parties who were also sending money to us, as well as treating the wounded fighters of the organization inside the State of Israel.”
The al-Qaeda leader revealed dangerous information about ISIS trying to obtain chemical weapons from North Korea. He said, “The Foreign Relations Office sought to obtain various weapons, including (chemical) from North Korea, where a delegation from the office, which Abu Muhammad Al-Adnani was in charge of negotiations and headed by Abu Ahmed Al-Iraqi, did not succeed in meeting the Korean parties and completing the deal.
The detained leader of Al-Nusra Front in Iraq revealed the beginning of his acquaintance with the terrorist organizations, “His knowledge of the terrorist organizations dates back to the year 2012, when he started following the news of the organization through the websites and the (Paltalk) program, where he was then known as (Amir Al-Masri) and (Rashid Al-Masri), They convinced him of the necessity of belonging to the organization and immigration to Syria to participate in the work of jihad and the application of the sharia.
He added that “after in-depth talks, I was convinced to join and travel to Syria, via Turkey, after arrangements made by Rashid Al-Masry to send me to Syria, including my association with a group of (transporters) who were mostly Turks, and I used to get their phone numbers successively from Al-Masri and actually reached the Syrian lands and Abu al-Bara al-Shamali received me in the province of Raqqa. “
He indicated that he was appointed in coordination with (Rashid Al-Masri) at the central office of the Border Department in Aleppo, which later became called the (Immigration Authority).”
Working in this office, according to “Al-Muhanna Al-Maghribi”, focuses on “responding to telephone and electronic communications, by means of video and other means of communication, to those coming from different countries to Turkey; in order to help them enter Syrian territory, and provide them with the phone numbers of carriers.
The Moroccan reveals that “most of the enrolled persons who I provided them with information that help them reach Syria, are the Tunisians in the first place and the Saudis, and from the foreign nationalities the Russians and the French were at the forefront of the immigrants who join the fighting in the ranks of the terrorist organizations, whether it is Jabhat al-Nusra or ISIS.”
He said that, “In the middle of the year 2014, I married a Syrian woman, and one month after our marriage, the organization took control of cities inside Iraq, and brought me a large group of Yazidis, Turkmen, Shiites, and Christians women. The area commander gave me a woman slave in addition to my Syrian wife and because I was married recently, I sold her.
“Because of the differences between me and the leaders of the organization, and because of a snitching, I was stripped of my responsibilities and transferred to a soldier, within the so-called Othman division of the state of Hama that was led at the time by Abu Muhammad al-Hashemi, which led me to leave the organization and join the Jabhat al-Nusra led by al-Golani,” he said. Where he has received care and attention, especially with the funding received from the Qatari Sheikh Khaled Suleiman.
For his part, the investigating judge specialized in terrorism cases in the Court Appeal of Baghdad and Rusafa confirmed that “the Iraqi joint military operations succeeded and with a qualitative process, after a long follow-up the arrest of“ Issam Al-Maghraby ”, who is one of the most wanted, and added that“ investigations are still ongoing with Al-Maghraby, and he will be held accountable according to Iraqi law.
