The following are excerpts from the interrogation of two Egyptian terrorists who were captured in Iraq. Al-Fayhaa TV aired these interrogations on March 31, 2005.
Interviewer: Your name?
Muhammad Ramadhan: Muhammad Samir Muhammad Ramadhan.
Interviewer: Where are you from?
Muhammad Ramadhan: Cairo, Egypt, sir.
Interviewer: To which terrorist squad
do you belong?
Muhammad Ramadhan: To someone called
Ahmad Ibrahim Al-Turki, sir.
Interviewer: To what "Army"?
Muhammad Ramadhan: The Liberation Army.
Interviewer: A squad under the command
of Adam Al-Duma?
Muhammad Ramadhan: Yes, sir.
Interviewer: What terrorist
operations did you carry out?
Muhammad Ramadhan: Sir, we killed six National Guard
personnel at the Or Hotel.
Interviewer: How did you kill them?
Muhammad Ramadhan: They brought them to us at the hotel,
and we slaughtered them.
Me and Mustafaa¦ and Zaka Al-Din.
Interviewer: You slaughtered them?
Muhammad Ramadhan: Yes, sir.
Interviewer: With a knife?
Muhammad Ramadhan: Yes, sir.
Interviewer: Did you know their names?
Muhammad Ramadhan: No, sir, I didn't.
Interviewer: Did you know which where they were from?
Muhammad Ramadhan: No, sir, only that they were from
the National Guard.
Interviewer: Did they wear
National Guard uniforms?
Muhammad Ramadhan: Yes, sir.
Interviewer: Who said that they were from
the National Guard?
Muhammad Ramadhan: Allah knows.
Interviewer: Maybe they just brought them
off the street? What was the punishment
of the National Guard?
Whoever wears the National Guard uniform should be slaughtered?
Does this make sense?
Muhammad Ramadhan: Sir, they wore National
Guard uniforms.
Interviewer: When did you carry out
these operations?
Muhammad Ramadhan: Two months ago.
Interviewer: How and where was the slaughter carried out?
Muhammad Ramadhan: In the Or Hotel hall.
Interviewer: In the hall of the hotel?
Muhammad Ramadhan: Yes, sir.
Interviewer: Is this a tourist hotel?
Muhammad Ramadhan: Yes, sir.
Interviewer: And you slaughtered in its hall?
Muhammad Ramadhan: Yes, sir.
Interviewer: What time did this take place?
Muhammad Ramadhan: At midnight they brought them for us
to slaughter them.
Interviewer: What did you do with them
after you slaughtered them?
Muhammad Ramadhan: They came at 6 a.m. in a white truck,
picked them up and said they were taking them to the Wadi 'Iqab cemetery.
Interviewer: Who took them?
Muhammad Ramadhan: The same group
that brought them to us.
Interviewer: On the same day?
Muhammad Ramadhan: Yes, in the morning they came
and took them.
Interviewer: Did you slaughter
the six on that same day?
Muhammad Ramadhan: Yes, on that same day, sir.
Interviewer: So, you brought six people to the hotel and slaughtered them all at once?
Who taught you to slaughter?
Can anyone who wants to do that?
Muhammad Ramadhan: I regret this act, sir.
Interviewer: Who taught you to slaughter?
Where did you learn to slaughter?
Muhammad Ramadhan: This is the first time
I slaughtered.
Interviewer: The first time you slaughtered,
you slaughtered six people?
Muhammad Ramadhan: The three of us together
slaughtered the six.
Interviewer: What do you mean?
Me, Mustafa, and Sayyed
Al-Madbouli
Interviewer: Who held the knife
and slaughtered?
Muhammad Ramadhan: I slaughtered two while
they held them for me.
Interviewer: How much did you get
for this slaughtering?
Muhammad Ramadhan: The three of us got
$1,200 in total.
Interviewer: $1,200 for six slaughtered people?
Muhammad Ramadhan: Each of us got $400.
Interviewer: $200 for each slaughtered person.
Muhammad Ramadhan: Yes, sir.
Interviewer: What's your name?
Zaka Al-Din: Zaka Al-Din Abd Al-Fatah Suliman.
Interviewer: How old are you?
Zaka Al-Din: I was born in 1958.
Interviewer: Egyptian?
Zaka Al-Din: Yes, an Egyptian national.
Interviewer: From where in Egypt?
Zaka Al-Din: Kufr Al-Sheikh.
Interviewer: How many years have you been in Iraq?
Zaka Al-Din: Almost 17 years.
Interviewer: To which terrorist organization
do you belong?
Zaka Al-Din: To a squad headed by Ahmad Ibrahim Al-Turki,
which belongs
to the Liberation Army.
Interviewer: What does this terrorist
squad do?
Zaka Al-Din: Operations
of destruction, sir.
Interviewer: Did you receive training outside Iraq?
Zaka Al-Din: Yes, I did.
Interviewer: Where?
Zaka Al-Din: In Syria.
Interviewer: In which region?
Zaka Al-Din: In Al-Ladhiqiya.
Interviewer: Who brought you to this work?
Zaka Al-Din: Adam the Sudanese.
Interviewer: After you returned
from training in Syria,
what terrorist operations did you carry out?
Zaka Al-Din: A squad came to us and brought six people and we slaughtered them.
Interviewer: Where were these six from?
Zaka Al-Din: From the National Guard, but I don't
know from where.