Baniyas Armed Cell: We Were Prepared to Attack Oil Pipeline, Al Qozz Bridge
The Syrian TV on Wednesday broadcast confessions of an armed terrorist cell arrested by the army units and security forces while on a mission of chasing armed terrorist groups in Baniyas, reported SANA.
The army units and security forces seized quantities of weapons, ammunitions and explosive devices which were prepared to attack army members, security forces, public and private properties.
According to SANA, the army engineering regiments managed to dismantle many explosive charges which were prepared to attack the oil pipeline, the railway and Al Qooz Bridge near Tartous Highway. The terrorists hid other explosive charges in food packages and garbage sacks near the sidewalks in the vicinity of the army units.
Safi Yassin, a terrorist member, said ''I was a detainee in the Central Prison because of quarrels. Upon leaving the prison, I was surprised that demonstrations emerged from mosques calling for freedom, and later came to call for toppling the regime and declare Jihad in mosques by Sheikhs.''
''All the incitement and protests started from mosques following Friday prayers. They emerged indiscriminately.
Persons such as Anas Al Shaghri, Sheikh Anas Airutt, and Abu Ali Mohammad Ali Al Bayyasi and Al Sahyoni were already granted loans by banks estimated at hundreds of millions, and they were out for the destruction of this country.''
Yassin continues ''Mohammad Ali Al Bayasi stood in the protest and told protestors that he will arm them, and that weapons are kept in cars and that all should be armed for Jihad, blowing up the thermal power station, the railway and oil pipelines passing through Baniyas." He added that the protests strayed from calling for freedom to calls for killing unarmed civilians such as Nidal Jannoud from Tartous, who was slashed by knives by a bunch of persons who later mutilated his body."
Yassin said that the names who killed Jannoud and mutilated his body are "Yehia Al Rayyes, Ali Al Rayyes and Taleb Barbour, having no mercy on him although he was unarmed." Yassin confessed that weapons were provided by external sides such as Abdul Halim Khaddam through Al Bayyasi, his partner and business manager, who assured them that weapons are available, giving him a machine gun. ''When the army reached Jisr Al Naba' area, they started firing at them and detonating dynamite, although the army was not shooting and some army members were killed,''
Yassin goes on to say, ''In the meantime, Anas Al Shaghri was collaborating with TV Channels via lines they provided for him to give them false information, and he was preparing eyewitnesses from Baniyas.''
''Anas Al Shaghri prepared a number of ignorant people and trained them how to be eyewitnesses.'' ''Some Salafi Sheikhs, among them Ahmad Al Moussa and others, were calling for establishing a Salafi emirate secretly...As for the titles and posts and the names of those who will occupy them, they were pushing for that such as al-Bayyasi as the emir, Al Sohyoni, and others who were granted loans from the state money, estimated at hundreds of millions, such as Anas Al Shaghri, who works as business manager of an artist in a cabaret.
Ismail Al Bayyasi, another terrorist member charged with killing and vandalism, said ''the cell was plotting to mine Abu Raslan building, while an agricultural pharmacist called Ahmad Oubaid took it upon himself to provide necessary fertilizers, and detonators were provided by someone from Lattakia."
"Al Bayyasi added that planting mines started in the ''state'' of Sheikh Anas Airutt, Anas Al Sheghri and Mohammad Ali Al Bayyasi. ''Ten meters of the oil field between Baniyas and Homs were mined, and mines were also planted in Baniyas entrance opposite Al Marqab Castle.''
