The full story behind the abduction of a defecting officer of Syrian army

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Lieutenant Colonel Hussein Harmoush fled Syria and took refuge in Turkey then showed up in Syria once again and retracted in a TV interview all earlier anti-regime statements. The mystery is more or less solved as information surfaced about the involvement of Syrian, Turkish, and Iranian intelligence in bringing the dissident back.

According to information posted on the social networking website Facebook, Turkish intelligence officers who, like Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, belong to the Alawite sect, took part in the mission of bringing Harmoush, the most senior defector in the army, back to Syria. Their role, however, was reportedly unofficial and the Turkish authorities were not aware of the abduction. The disappearance of Harmoush from its territories and his subsequent appearance in Syria embarrassed the Turkish government, which has launched an investigation into the matter.

The story has it that Harmoush was invited to dinner outside the refugee camp where he was staying in the southern province of Hatay. He was supposed to meet a Turkish officer to discuss possible ways of offering assistance to the revolutionaries in Syria and arming defecting military officers.

Harmoush, unlike what is believed, did not go to that meeting alone. According to the recently released account, he was accompanied by two other dissident officers and they were also abducted; their whereabouts remain unknown. The three officers were drugged with sleeping pills which were added to their food abd then smuggled across the Turkish-Syrian borders with the help of Turkish intelligence officers.

Following the indignation of Syrian opposition at the role Turkey played in repatriating Harmoush, Turkish authorities started an investigation and three Syrian intelligence operatives, one of them an Iranian citizen, were arrested and are currently being interrogated by Turkish intelligence.

Hussein Harmoush’s brother Ibrahim confirmed the manner of his brother’s abduction which coincides with the latest information.

“Hussein disappeared after meeting a Turkish officer in the refugee camp,” he told Al Arabiya in a phone interview. “He would have never been taken back to Syria without Turkey’s assistance.”

Ibrahim added that the following day he asked that same Turkish officer (who he had seen his brother with) about Harmoush’s whereabouts.

“He told me he knew nothing about him and that he left him 10 minutes after they had met.”

The Guardian ran an earlier story about Turkey’s possible involvement in Harmoush’s abduction and quoted Lebanese human rights activist Wessam Tarif as saying that Turkey handed Harmoush to Syria in return for nine members of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party.

Alarabiya

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37 responses to “The full story behind the abduction of a defecting officer of Syrian army”

  1. based on the photo… he looks like he is very well treated and happy to be back,,,,,to face the devil.

    1. 5thDrawer Avatar

      Some year ALL of it may come out … if they let him live long enough to tell his story. But I’m sure they only had to show him what they were doing to the other two to have him give a song and dance in hopes of living a bit longer.

    2. PROPHET.T Avatar

      geo,Home  sweet  home.lol

      1. lol prophet, i think i will go to hell for finding humor in this but here we go.
        take a good look at his face expression.

        if he is looking at a firing squad  PRESS 1
        if he is looking at dr hook PRESS 2
        if he is is looking at the water boarding crew PRESS 3
        if bashar is holding a picture of husseins familly PRESS 4
        if his lotto numbers just came up PRESS 5
        if he is watching the faces of death on pay per view PRESS 6
        if he went to bed at the holiday in express and woke up at the mukhabarat lodge PRESS 7

        1. PROPHET.T Avatar

          geo, Good  day  my  friend….
          One thing for sure, His two  other  partners must  have met their  fate,and properly  all seven buttons were  pressed.He  most  likely will be   going  through  same  motion  without being  executed  yet.The fact that  He  was paraded on State TV, He will be  put through a  court  circus  first, in  order  to  make  an  example of  him.

        2. nagy_michael2 Avatar
          nagy_michael2

          I can’t wait when the Israelis kidnapp Nassrallah or Qaasem AL Saher. I bet you all 7 buttons will be pressed too.

    3. 5thDrawer Avatar

      That old saying .. ‘A deer looking into headlights.’  🙂

  2. based on the photo… he looks like he is very well treated and happy to be back,,,,,to face the devil.

    1. 5thDrawer Avatar

      Some year ALL of it may come out … if they let him live long enough to tell his story. But I’m sure they only had to show him what they were doing to the other two to have him give a song and dance in hopes of living a bit longer.

  3. based on the photo… he looks like he is very well treated and happy to be back,,,,,to face the devil.

    1.  Avatar

      Some year ALL of it may come out … if they let him live long enough to tell his story. But I’m sure they only had to show him what they were doing to the other two to have him give a song and dance in hopes of living a bit longer.

    2. PROPHET.T Avatar

      geo,Home  sweet  home.lol

      1. lol prophet, i think i will go to hell for finding humor in this but here we go.
        take a good look at his face expression.

        if he is looking at a firing squad  PRESS 1
        if he is looking at dr hook PRESS 2
        if he is is looking at the water boarding crew PRESS 3
        if bashar is holding a picture of husseins familly PRESS 4
        if his lotto numbers just came up PRESS 5
        if he is watching the faces of death on pay per view PRESS 6
        if he went to bed at the holiday in express and woke up at the mukhabarat lodge PRESS 7

        1. PROPHET.T Avatar

          geo, Good  day  my  friend….
          One thing for sure, His two  other  partners must  have met their  fate,and properly  all seven buttons were  pressed.He  most  likely will be   going  through  same  motion  without being  executed  yet.The fact that  He  was paraded on State TV, He will be  put through a  court  circus  first, in  order  to  make  an  example of  him.

        2.  Avatar

          I can’t wait when the Israelis kidnapp Nassrallah or Qaasem AL Saher. I bet you all 7 buttons will be pressed too.

    3.  Avatar

      That old saying .. ‘A deer looking into headlights.’  🙂

  4. Alarabiya and Al Jazeera are the official mouthpiece of the imperialist propaganda.

  5.  Avatar

    Alarabiya and Al Jazeera are the official mouthpiece of the imperialist propaganda.

  6.  Avatar

    Alarabiya and Al Jazeera are the official mouthpiece of the imperialist propaganda.

  7. James bond like story. This will deter others from defecting. He looks like a concrete mixer.

  8.  Avatar

    James bond like story. This will deter others from defecting. He looks like a concrete mixer.

  9. Patience2 Avatar

    So there are ‘Dogs’ among the Alevites of Turkey, as well as the Alewites of Syria!!  Well, I guess it’s only natural.

  10.  Avatar

    So there are ‘Dogs’ among the Alevites of Turkey, as well as the Alewites of Syria!!  Well, I guess it’s only natural.

  11. How about an STS for Syria? Come on Mr. Moon we’d like to see you start one !!! 

  12.  Avatar

    How about an STS for Syria? Come on Mr. Moon we’d like to see you start one !!! 

  13. antar2011 Avatar

    waadi al zi2aab part 3

  14.  Avatar

    waadi al zi2aab part 3

  15. LEBANON101 Avatar

    turkey should respect itself fight out what happened and punish those who took part

  16.  Avatar

    turkey should respect itself fight out what happened and punish those who took part

  17. This prooves that there is a big conspiracy against the innocent syrian people, because all states who pretends to oppose the violence in Syria by Assads regime, are direct or indirect sponsors to this regime incluiding Turkey who just showed us her real face by abducting Lieutnant Harmoush on its territory a place where he has been received as a political refugee, and for human right reason we all know, and where he thought to be safe and deliverd him to Assads regime. And the funny thing of it is that the Turkish goverment is doing an investigation after all the harm is done.
    But its never to late to say the truth about the incident and to repatriate Lieutnant Harmoush and to appologize to him and the Syrian people who had some trust in Turkey.
    Shame on Turkey, for this bad action because it remind us regimes like the iranian one… And the most important now in that is the faith of Lieutnant Harmoushe, because he might be exposed to the worst techniques of torture by the Regime militia. So we should assure a way out of the country to the lieutant, in a country where he would be protected and safe so he could expose the truth about this killing machine regime, the way he has abducted, because if we wait it will be to late…..

    1. 5thDrawer Avatar

      Yes … but where are we going to say it? Find a politician who will worry about one military man – especially one who became sick of his ‘orders’. He should have been wary of anyone who invited him to dinner.
      Turkey – trying to ‘fly high’ in regional matters – is infected with the same idiots as all of the others. Just ask the 21 or so injured by a van blowing up near a school.

  18.  Avatar

    This prooves that there is a big conspiracy against the innocent syrian people, because all states who pretends to oppose the violence in Syria by Assads regime, are direct or indirect sponsors to this regime incluiding Turkey who just showed us her real face by abducting Lieutnant Harmoush on its territory a place where he has been received as a political refugee, and for human right reason we all know, and where he thought to be safe and deliverd him to Assads regime. And the funny thing of it is that the Turkish goverment is doing an investigation after all the harm is done.
    But its never to late to say the truth about the incident and to repatriate Lieutnant Harmoush and to appologize to him and the Syrian people who had some trust in Turkey.
    Shame on Turkey, for this bad action because it remind us regimes like the iranian one… And the most important now in that is the faith of Lieutnant Harmoushe, because he might be exposed to the worst techniques of torture by the Regime militia. So we should assure a way out of the country to the lieutant, in a country where he would be protected and safe so he could expose the truth about this killing machine regime, the way he has abducted, because if we wait it will be to late…..

    1.  Avatar

      Yes … but where are we going to say it? Find a politician who will worry about one military man – especially one who became sick of his ‘orders’. He should have been wary of anyone who invited him to dinner.
      Turkey – trying to ‘fly high’ in regional matters – is infected with the same idiots as all of the others. Just ask the 21 or so injured by a van blowing up near a school.

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