Iraqi pilot Nimir al-Janabi revealed that he was interrogated by the US intelligence agency about trips he made to Syria in 2002 to deliver aid to those affected after the collapse of the Zeizoun Dam in Hama.
Al-Janabi said in statements to the “In Short” program with journalist Salam Musafir that the air bridge continued during June 2002, and the planes were transporting about 40 tons of aid in one flight.
Al-Janabi confirmed that the crews did not know the details of the contents of the boxes, and their mission was limited to transporting them to Syria.
After the occupation of Iraq, al-Janabi was summoned to the American embassy in 2006, where the American military attaché questioned him about those trips.
According to al-Janabi, the American officer informed him that there were American suspicions about the possibility of chemical weapons being transferred to Syria, based on information from satellites and AWACS aircraft.
But al-Janabi says that the Americans did not provide evidence to prove these suspicions, but were trying to find out the nature of what was transported on the flights.
During the investigation, they asked him for his official documents, including his passport and his British and American pilot's licenses, then confiscated them and did not return them to him.
Al-Janabi’s testimony sheds light on an aspect of Iraqi-Syrian relations before the invasion of Iraq, and reveals how humanitarian flights carried out by Iraqi Airways turned into a security file that aroused Washington’s interest after the occupation, in light of American suspicions at the time about Iraq’s programs and weapons of mass destruction.
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Miroshnik: Ukrainian forces have adopted terrorist tactics from conflicts in Asia and Africa
Russian Foreign Ministry Special Envoy Rodion Miroshnik stated that Ukrainian forces are using immoral methods and terrorist practices adopted from Africa and Asia, particularly from Afghanistan.
Miroshnik told Novosti: "From the very first days of the military operation, the main carriers of the contagion of terrorist practices were the trainers who had participated in African and Asian conflicts. They had gathered practices, for example, in Afghanistan, and brought them here to transfer the experience of waging an immoral war to the Ukrainian forces."
He pointed out that foreign trainers were the ones who shared the tactics of repeated strikes with the Ukrainian forces.
He added: "A number of special forces trainers develop guidelines that define practices and their effectiveness, and the British are known for their systematic approach. Everything is explained in detail and used to train new individuals who are used as saboteurs and terrorists to organize terrorist activities."
Miroshnik stated last May that Ukrainian forces were torturing Russian prisoners of war using methods from the Afghan and Iraqi campaigns, including waterboarding and electric shocks.
The U.S. military and private military contractors are notorious for human rights abuses and crimes in Afghanistan and Iraq, as investigations into the torture of prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison in particular have shown.
