How Did ISIS Kids' Torture, Women's Rape Shocked Algerian Recruits?

Algiers Dar Bida Criminal Court continued to display the files of ISIS recruits, and the case concerns the file of the largest recruitment cell for fighters that is based in Algiers Baraki district.

Security services were able to dismantle and arrest 10  people out of the 17 accused, who are led by a Koran teacher called “Abu Mohajer”, in coordination with the terrorist who is known in Syria as “Abu Dujana al Annabi”, in order to mobilize many young people and students, spreading extremist ideas a,d harnessing trade funds to finance the organization after exchanging hard currency.

The trial of the defendants revealed on Sunday the exiting statements of a returnee from the front of the fighting in Syria called “H, Abdullah”, who spent 8 months since 2015 traveling between areas of conflict in Syria and Iraq, saying that the knowledge of the idea of ​​jihad for the sake of Allah and discovering ISIS “false paradise”, dragged him to live a real hell, where he was traumatized by his knowledge of the other side of the organization due to the terrifying scenes that he had endured from the torture of children and the rape of women.

The suspect, citing details of his trip to Syria, alleged that the Turkish army had colluded in supporting and facilitating the entry of foreign fighters, including Algerians, across the land border from the Osmaniyah region, on foot to Syrian Aleppo. 

After his arrival, he was suspected of being a “spy” for refusing to participate in the fighting, which put him under surveillance before being armed and transferred to Mosul and forced to respond to attacks, and then turned to work as a guard in a car park in Iraq, but the situation was no longer tolerable for “H, Abdullah”, forcing him to marriage and accept their offer until he got rid of their control and was able to get out of “Hell”, as he said.

The suspect added that he was able, thanks to someone who told him that he belonged to the intelligence of a Gulf state, to escape from Syria, negotiating with the Algerian party, and preventing his return later by the Turkish authorities.

The arrest of the accused took place in January 2015, following the investigations that were initiated by the Anti-Terrorist Task Force in the context of continuing the monitoring of the suspicious movements of Salafist elements regarding the enrollment of a student of the Industrial Systems Division who was arrested at the airport of Houari Boumediene after his deportation to Algeria, after he was caught by the Turkish authorities at sea by boat with a group of people from different states, who were detained in a refugee center.

During the retrieval of the results of the technical expertise on his mobile phone, it was revealed that he was entering Syria, and based on his confessions, 10 people were arrested and 7 others were left in escape, and investigations proved that they joined the organization, including “H, Abdullah” who was able to return  to Algeria, and another man called “B.R”, a wholesaler who admitted that he gave money to the cell’s members to facilitate and cover the travel costs of the fighters, asserting that this was in support of “ISIS” and Jihad in the name of Allah before retreating his remarks during Sunday’s session.