Confessions of “Abu Hamza al-Belgiki”, the threats of Paris

By: Hossam El Haddad

Tarek Jadaoun, or “Abu Hamza al-Belgiki”, who is currently in Iraq and facing the death penalty there because of his joining to Daesh, and his involvement in many of the hostilities in Iraq, is from Verviers near Liege, in the south-eastern Belgium.

Belgian newspapers quoted Jadaoun, 29, as saying that he was ready to take part in many suicide attacks in Europe.

“I volunteered in 2015 to participate in attacks in Belgium and France, knowing that Abdelhamid Aba Oud was looking for suicide bombers to carry out attacks in Europe, but the prince in charge of me refused to allow me to participate,” Jadaoun said in his confessions, according to Het Last News.

Among Jadaoun’s confessions is his recognition of his intense activity on social networks to recruit fighters and encourage them to carry out attacks in Europe.

Jadaoun, according to the Belgian newspaper, admitted that he was connected via Telegram to the two men who killed Father Hamel at the church of Saint Etienne de Rovere in France in July 2016, as well as the girls who tried to attack the Notre-Dame church in Paris, which was foiled by French authorities at the last minute.

Tariq Jadaoun appeared last December in the Belgian television, declaring his willingness to cooperate with the intelligence services in his country; to evade from the death penalty in Iraq, despite his adoption of the bloody attacks that hit Brussels in March 2016, and he has threatened Belgium in several propaganda tapes in the past.

According to Al-Azhar Observatory, Daesh with its increasing losses on the ground and retreating in many areas, is still wants to illude the world that it is still active on the world stage; through its individual wolves, this indicates that the road for Daesh progress is cut off, and what it does, come under the principle of: “they have nothing to lose”.

Jadaoun’s confessions included a reference to the fact that Da’ash was keen to send terrorists to several European countries, and a number of them still exist in Europe. He also explicitly admitted his involvement in terrorist operations, but his confessions contradict his statements two weeks ago to a Belgian television.

A few days ago Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel said: “The Belgian government will not negotiate under any circumstances with the fighters, who have traveled to join to Daesh and want to return to Belgium again,” according to statements quoted by «VTM» the Belgian television station, adding that “There is no place in our society for these people.”

The daily Standard newspaper reported on its website that Tariq Jadaoun was an important person in Daesh and have an important position over the past years after playing a large role in training the new fighters. He then played the role of the planner and engineer of several attacks in Europe, so he known as the successor of Aba oud, referring to the Belgian “Abdelhamid Aba oud”, considered by the media in Brussels and Paris as one of the planners of the Paris bombings that killed 130 people in November 2015, who died a few days after the attack during a security raid on a house in the neighborhood of Saint-Denis in Paris, According to media reports at the time.

The confessions published by various media in Brussels showed that Jadaoun had been in detention since last July in Iraq and did not die after being promoted through social media more than once. It also revealed how the terrorist organization, recruited migrants from Morocco, Tunisia and Algeria to join to the organization in Syria and Iraq, and turning them to dangerous elements and trainers for the Syrian children and the children of immigrants to fight for $ 100 a month.

In his confessions, Abu Hamza said that after completing his one-year prison sentence, he met with a group of those who were in prison. They agreed to go to Syria to join the organization and participate in the fighting.

He was among a group of four Moroccans including Lutfi, who preceded him to join the organization, who put them in a special team along with others called the team of Abu Mu’taz al-Quraishi, where he persuaded them to be suicide bombers and fight to get “martyrdom”.

He added that they had been given two weeks in the camp to learn some religious provisions and using various weapons before they were asked at the end of the term to swear allegiance to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the organization, adding that they had been traveled to the Syrian city to receive military training before returning to Raqqa to fight for $ 100 per month.

They also trained so-called “calves of the caliphate”, their ages between of eight and thirteen, the training includes physical fitness and using light weapons. Migrants or foreign fighters in the organization have also taken charge of cells in Europe, advocating terrorist operations in Europe and America, and filming videos calling on citizens from France and Belgium to carry out suicide attacks.