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My husband went inside to the massacre inside, it seems Amjad Youssef is preparing for him.

The first one is the one in the pit, everyone knows that my brother died in the same pit.

He would bring in innocent people, shoot them, and throw them into the pit.

We saw the criminals right in front of our eyes and we didn't dare say a word.

Three of my cousins’ sons, with their wives and kids, what guilt do they have those ones?

How many orphans cried for their fathers? Okay, but why the burning? It is as if I can see the victims

As they flocked to the pit, they said, “O Lord, take for us the truth.”

God is greatest, the Syrian people awoke to heartwarming good news O God

The greatest blood of the martyr is the blood of the martyr.

Everyone is congratulating me that, thank God, they caught Amjad Youssef in a crime.

These people who were found innocent, it means a huge joy, glory be to God My tears…

On my cheeks from happiness, we are happy from all our heart, it is the best day

After the liberation, it means now we can offer condolences for our martyrs. Today’s news: they caught

Amjad Youssef. God is greatest.

God is greatest, God is greatest, God is greatest. The beginning…

I would like to congratulate the Syrian people on the arrest of the criminal Amjad

Al-Yousef, the first suspect in the Tadamon massacre case, which claimed the lives of…

dozens, and I would especially like to congratulate our people in the Tadamon neighborhood on the arrest

of this dangerous criminal in

the morning of Friday, and at dawn on Friday, the operation had been planned several

days in advance. We prepared the aerial survey with special arrangements for the

arrest, and there were several security cordons to carry out the operation properly so

that we would not encounter any problems during the execution of the work. Praise be to God, it was

a smooth operation. We entered his house, and he was in his bedroom and was not able

He resisted the forces carrying out the operation on the ground, then he was taken to the competent authorities

to start investigations into the crimes attributed to him in the Al-Tadamon neighborhood or elsewhere

or others. I am

Amjad Youssef, First Assistant. I used to work in the Intelligence Branch in the Regional Branch

Branch 227. I joined the military corps in 2004 for a one-year training course

and completed a full year. I graduated in 2005—2006, sorry, 2006, with the rank of sergeant, first sergeant,

and I completed the rank of first sergeant until I was promoted to the rank of assistant, and then

The regime collapsed, I was a warrant officer. The video that spread on

social media, the one where Amjad Yusuf appears, that is me.

And in it, it appeared that, before the start of the crisis, almost the start of the revolution,

what happened was that Najeeb and I—this is Najeeb al-Halabi, he was in the National Defense—

and one of its members was filming, I do not remember what the cameraman’s name was.

We had brought, before that, around forty people, supposedly all of them at that time

were terrorists or funders who were providing financial support for terrorism.

As for the soldiers, no one was there except me, we drove them to

the pit that had been dug, a loader had dug it, and I opened fire

on them, just as you saw in the video clip. Once I would wait for him to fall into the pit,

once I would shoot him before he fell into the pit, once I would have Najeeb be the one

to shoot, until we were done with them. And after we finished shooting,

we had put tires on the ground under them, then we would put tires

on top of them and set fire on top of them so that there would not be any smell.

I mean, in that area we lit a fire above them and filled in the pit, we buried it.

I mean, after a day, after two days, you no longer go there, it is by your own decision.

Yourself? By my own decision, myself, without… I do not have, I do not have a rank,

a military one, that gave me an order, or an officer, or a general. If I had one, I would tell you.

On the contrary, I take responsibility for myself; I swear to God, I didn't choose it.

The victims weren't chosen; it was agreed upon that there would be 40 people.

That is how it happened, that is how the circumstances formed and the number came together, I mean this I mean…

We did not choose them, like me going out with him and saying, “Get so-and-so,” for example, so-and-so from the people

He had info on him, or someone came and wrote a report about him, or some information came in

about him saying he had been with the gunmen in some area, and it turned out, for example, that he was just hiding

So-and-so was supplying the gunmen with material or something like that, that is how the information used to come

And supposedly we would go out and bring them back, hopefully the same would happen to us

Every criminal whose hands are stained with blood, they will be caught, God willing, I am uncle

doing their job in the state, thank God, they have not forgotten me, we have our eye on

God, truly the truth has appeared today, may God grant you victory, may God protect you that

God willing, dear Lord, dear Lord, and may it also happen to Bashar al-Assad, we in the Ministry of

the Interior pledge to the Syrian people that we are moving forward in achieving transitional justice

until the arrest of the last criminal who shed any of the blood of the Syrian people

and had a black hand in the great Syrian revolution, as

we also thank the men of the Internal Security Forces in the Ministry of the Interior for what they have done

in carrying out the mission correctly and delivering Amjad Youssef into

the grip of justice. The blood of the martyr, the blood of the martyr

The blood of the martyr, the blood of the martyr, the blood of the martyr, the blood

of the martyr, the blood of the martyr