Two Terrorist Confess to Working with Biased Channels in Media Misdirection

Two terrorists working in media misdirection for biased channels detailed their dealings with these channels, the methods they used to deliver what they recorded, and the instructions they received.

In confessions broadcast by the Syrian TV, Anas Katroun said that terrorist groups blew up the Post Office in Jisr al-Shughour and killed the security personnel. He said that the attack lasted for 24 hours, ending when the terrorist drove a bulldozer carrying a drum of gasoline into the building and blew it up.

Katroun said that after the explosion, some of the security personnel attempted to leave the building, and that some of them were shot there by the terrorist while the others were captured and left to a square where they were shot dead in front of everyone.

He said that he and his colleagues were instructed by other members of terrorist groups to record footage of the security personnel murdered by the external-backed armed groups and buried in a mass grave, and that the video was to be sent to satellite channels and published under the pretense that the bodies belong to citizens killed by security forces.

“I went to the Post Office and recorded footage of four bodies and gave the video to Mahmoud, who in turn sent it to satellite channels as requested by Jihad and Hussein,” he said, adding that he recorded a protest and sent it to the people in charge of broadcasting footage on channels, and that the number of protestors and the signs were limited, but was surprised later when he saw the same footage on TV with a larger number of people, more signs and distorted voices.

In turn, Bashir al-Abdo, another terrorist working in media misdirection, said that he was asked by Katroun to go to the village of Kherbet al-Joz near Jisr al-Shughour and take a flash drive with pictures of protests and signs. He delivered the flash drive to a man called Mohammad, and on a subsequent visit to the village was let into a room full of technical equipment and servers that were used to send the videos and pictures.

Al-Abdo pointed out that he noticed that the protest appeared differently on TV and contained more people and signs, and when he inquired about that he was told “we know that… this is what we’re doing.”

He went on to relate some of the events that took place in Jisr al-Shughour, saying that a man called Jamil Saaib and others recorded injured people and forced them to say that they defected from the army and were shot by the army.

Al-Abdo pointed out that armed men headed towards a military security post, and that afterwards they heard explosions and gunfire that lasted for a long time, and after the noise ended they were told that the explosions were caused by dynamite intended for blowing up the post.

“After the gunfire and the explosions ended, the armed men were able to capture security personnel alive… I head they took them to a square called al-Soma’a where they opened fire on them haphazardly and killed the remaining ones,” he added.

Al-Abdo said that Jamil Saaib said that they had to take advantage of the lack of food and burning crops even if they had to lie, instructing them to claim that they were given food supplies because the army kept bombarding us, and to claim to some channels that the city’s people had no food.

West and US backed Websites and satellite channels published showed footage of what they claimed were people killed by security forces for disobeying orders, when in fact they were killed by the armed terrorist groups.

The Syrian TV broadcast footage that others channels claimed they didn’t receive, showing terrorists attacking public and private property.