"Australian jihadist: Slaughter is an implementation of Islam".
Northeastern Syria - North-Press Agency
While he was looking at his injured leg and tightening his chin, he claimed that he was just helping the injured, while the gestures of confusion were visible on his face. This is the case of the Australian jihadist “Yousuf Muhammad Yousuf” who was known as Abu Affan al-Somali, who confirmed that he was happy with his jihadi experience within the Islamic State group (ISIS).
Yousuf Muhammad Yousuf is an Australian jihadist from the city of Melbourne, has joined ISIS in late of 2014 after being influenced by a friend who came with him to what he called the "Caliphate territories", i.e. ISIS controlled-territories.
Interviewing Abu Affan al-Somali is the second episode of a series of interviews which were made by North-Press with Australian "jihadists" who are detained by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in northeastern Syria.
From a gang member to an Islamic preacher
The Australian jihadist is now in a high-security detention center, five years after staying in ISIS controlled-territories, which had attracted more than 160 Australians since the announcement of the “caliphate”, where Abu Affan said that he had come to Syria after that announcement.
The way that the jihadi Yousuf joined the "extremist" group was traditional. The way he came from Australia to Syria was similar to the way where most foreign jihadists who entered Iraq and Syria through Turkish lands.
Abu Affan wasn’t a "good Muslim" as he described, he was always smoking and celebrating, the matter he now considers as taboo, he links the reason for joining the extremist group with his friend Sharmaki Jamea, known as Abu Touba al-Australi, who was a gangster in Australia where he was used to carrying out armed robberies, after he went to Egypt and came back, he became an Islamic preacher and encouraged Abu Affan to join him to head to Syria.
To the “Caliphate” through Jarablus
Abu Affan recalled that his Somali-born friend, who was physically trained, insisted on him and told him to "be a good Muslim and come", so they decided to travel to Turkey to enter Syria in late of 2014, where they entered Syrian territories through the Turkish karkamish border-crossing, adjacent to the Syrian town of Jarablus.
After his entry to ISIS controlled-areas, Abu Affan’s journey in the Syrian territories started, after crossing the borders he went to one of the reception houses (a gathering place for foreign arrivals), stayed there with about 100 people to be tested by ISIS leaders.
Two months later, Abu Affan went to the countryside of Homs to receive his military and forensic training, where he didn’t complete the military section because of the advancement of the Syrian government forces at the expense of the group as he said, to withdraw with the rest of the jihadists towards Raqqa, the de-facto capital of the alleged Islamic State caliphate.
He contradicts his story by saying that he had joined the “Awlaki Battalion” in Raqqa because of his need for money, while he said that he came from Homs to Raqqa as a prepared fighter.
He married a jihadi woman in Raqqa
Abu Affan denied being involved in any military actions, saying that the battalion sorted him out to one of the houses of the injured "migrants" to take care of them for $100 per month.
Answering a question that all of the group's detained jihadists say that they weren’t engaged in fighting operations, and they were working in the civilian section of the terrorist group, so who has been fighting for the past five years? He answered that all the jihadists who were engaged in the fighting were killed.
The Australian jihadist married a Somali jihadist woman and stayed in Raqqa until his friend was killed in a battle in the city of Hasakah, in northeastern Syria.
Abu Affan's mother tried to bring him back more than once, while she traveled to Turkey several times to work on his return, but attempts were in vain.
As the United States-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) began their military operations to control the city of Raqqa, Abu Affan and his wife left to Deir ez-Zor and the towns of its eastern countryside to start the countdown of the days which he lived in the imagined lands of the “Caliphate”. He then left to the town of al-Bukamal on the Syrian-Iraqi borders, and then to the Iraqi town of Ramadi on the other side of Euphrates river.
Injury and contradiction
Abu Affan was severely injured in the town of Hajin, southeastern Deir ez-Zor, where he claimed that he was subjected to an explosion that he cannot remember anything, which led to the loss of some of his toes and then the inability to walk.
He considered that "Slaughtering people was an implementation of Islam as it is mentioned in the Quran", but he ignored to narrate any verses of the Quran which mention that.
"I met good people and I got married, I won’t regret this experience", said Abu Affan while he smiled when he talked about his experience in the Islamic State’s controlled-areas, which he said that he didn’t experience anything bad, but he only heard some bad things.
Abu Affan refused to go back to ISIS, by saying: "I want to stay in my country and that one injury is enough", contradicting his previous talk again about his good experience during ISIS reign.
Australian tightening
In late of 2014, the Australian government developed a $585 million spending plan to support local programs which focused on preventing young people from joining "extremist" groups in addition to forming Australian Federal Police teams to supervise the return of the jihadi fighters from the conflict zones and the risks they would pose.
In addition to developing a plan to support local programs, the government raised the alert level to its maximum in September 2015 abolishing 100 passports for the suspected jihadists as well as the arrest of more than 20 people on charges of carrying out “terrorist” schemes at the time.
The former Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott announced in mid-2015 that no Australian "jihadists" who decided to return to their country could be pardoned since they had violated the Australian law, and killed innocent people, considering that fighting them is a guarantor for not returning.
Watch the video of the interview in Arabic on;
https://www.npasyria.com/en/blog.ph...dist: Slaughter is an implementation of Islam
Northeastern Syria - North-Press Agency
While he was looking at his injured leg and tightening his chin, he claimed that he was just helping the injured, while the gestures of confusion were visible on his face. This is the case of the Australian jihadist “Yousuf Muhammad Yousuf” who was known as Abu Affan al-Somali, who confirmed that he was happy with his jihadi experience within the Islamic State group (ISIS).
Yousuf Muhammad Yousuf is an Australian jihadist from the city of Melbourne, has joined ISIS in late of 2014 after being influenced by a friend who came with him to what he called the "Caliphate territories", i.e. ISIS controlled-territories.
Interviewing Abu Affan al-Somali is the second episode of a series of interviews which were made by North-Press with Australian "jihadists" who are detained by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in northeastern Syria.
From a gang member to an Islamic preacher
The Australian jihadist is now in a high-security detention center, five years after staying in ISIS controlled-territories, which had attracted more than 160 Australians since the announcement of the “caliphate”, where Abu Affan said that he had come to Syria after that announcement.
The way that the jihadi Yousuf joined the "extremist" group was traditional. The way he came from Australia to Syria was similar to the way where most foreign jihadists who entered Iraq and Syria through Turkish lands.
Abu Affan wasn’t a "good Muslim" as he described, he was always smoking and celebrating, the matter he now considers as taboo, he links the reason for joining the extremist group with his friend Sharmaki Jamea, known as Abu Touba al-Australi, who was a gangster in Australia where he was used to carrying out armed robberies, after he went to Egypt and came back, he became an Islamic preacher and encouraged Abu Affan to join him to head to Syria.
To the “Caliphate” through Jarablus
Abu Affan recalled that his Somali-born friend, who was physically trained, insisted on him and told him to "be a good Muslim and come", so they decided to travel to Turkey to enter Syria in late of 2014, where they entered Syrian territories through the Turkish karkamish border-crossing, adjacent to the Syrian town of Jarablus.
After his entry to ISIS controlled-areas, Abu Affan’s journey in the Syrian territories started, after crossing the borders he went to one of the reception houses (a gathering place for foreign arrivals), stayed there with about 100 people to be tested by ISIS leaders.
Two months later, Abu Affan went to the countryside of Homs to receive his military and forensic training, where he didn’t complete the military section because of the advancement of the Syrian government forces at the expense of the group as he said, to withdraw with the rest of the jihadists towards Raqqa, the de-facto capital of the alleged Islamic State caliphate.
He contradicts his story by saying that he had joined the “Awlaki Battalion” in Raqqa because of his need for money, while he said that he came from Homs to Raqqa as a prepared fighter.
He married a jihadi woman in Raqqa
Abu Affan denied being involved in any military actions, saying that the battalion sorted him out to one of the houses of the injured "migrants" to take care of them for $100 per month.
Answering a question that all of the group's detained jihadists say that they weren’t engaged in fighting operations, and they were working in the civilian section of the terrorist group, so who has been fighting for the past five years? He answered that all the jihadists who were engaged in the fighting were killed.
The Australian jihadist married a Somali jihadist woman and stayed in Raqqa until his friend was killed in a battle in the city of Hasakah, in northeastern Syria.
Abu Affan's mother tried to bring him back more than once, while she traveled to Turkey several times to work on his return, but attempts were in vain.
As the United States-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) began their military operations to control the city of Raqqa, Abu Affan and his wife left to Deir ez-Zor and the towns of its eastern countryside to start the countdown of the days which he lived in the imagined lands of the “Caliphate”. He then left to the town of al-Bukamal on the Syrian-Iraqi borders, and then to the Iraqi town of Ramadi on the other side of Euphrates river.
Injury and contradiction
Abu Affan was severely injured in the town of Hajin, southeastern Deir ez-Zor, where he claimed that he was subjected to an explosion that he cannot remember anything, which led to the loss of some of his toes and then the inability to walk.
He considered that "Slaughtering people was an implementation of Islam as it is mentioned in the Quran", but he ignored to narrate any verses of the Quran which mention that.
"I met good people and I got married, I won’t regret this experience", said Abu Affan while he smiled when he talked about his experience in the Islamic State’s controlled-areas, which he said that he didn’t experience anything bad, but he only heard some bad things.
Abu Affan refused to go back to ISIS, by saying: "I want to stay in my country and that one injury is enough", contradicting his previous talk again about his good experience during ISIS reign.
Australian tightening
In late of 2014, the Australian government developed a $585 million spending plan to support local programs which focused on preventing young people from joining "extremist" groups in addition to forming Australian Federal Police teams to supervise the return of the jihadi fighters from the conflict zones and the risks they would pose.
In addition to developing a plan to support local programs, the government raised the alert level to its maximum in September 2015 abolishing 100 passports for the suspected jihadists as well as the arrest of more than 20 people on charges of carrying out “terrorist” schemes at the time.
The former Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott announced in mid-2015 that no Australian "jihadists" who decided to return to their country could be pardoned since they had violated the Australian law, and killed innocent people, considering that fighting them is a guarantor for not returning.
Watch the video of the interview in Arabic on;
https://www.npasyria.com/en/blog.ph...dist: Slaughter is an implementation of Islam
