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Ahmad Said: Armed Group abducted me, photographed me as a defected colonel

Citizen Ahmad Omar Said related how he was abducted by an armed terrorist group in Douma, Damascus countryside to be photographed as a colonel defected from the Syrian Arab army.

” I am Palestinian, works in Douma… while arriving at al-Siyndiana mosque, two gunmen, on a motorcycle intercepted me, tied my hands and blindfolded me..later they took me to unknown farm,” Said told the Syrian TV in an interview broadcast Monday.

He said that the gunmen put him in a room, beat him and asked him to bear a weapon and claim that he is a defected Army colonel… later they photographed him after giving him a rifle.

“The armed group contacted my family by phone, claiming that they are from the so-called the free army, asking my family; do you want to send him back in a box or torn apart in sacks..”, Said added.

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