YEMEN Press Agency

Video: Security media releases confessions of al-Qaeda, ISIS members

SANAA, Aug. 17 (YPA) – Security media in the national salvation government has on Sunday released video footage  shows several members of al-Qaeda  and Daesh (ISIS) who were captured  in Bayda front, drop their confessions.

The confessions of an al-Qaeda and ISIS member, Jamal Abdulsalam Mohammed Abdullah Herrarah,  from the al-Tawahi district of Aden, confirmed that he had participates in  raids on two exchange shops in Aden.

He said al-Qaeda elements trained him and transferred him to the Qaifa front to confront the army and popular committees.

Another ISIS operative arrested in the Bayda Front, Abdulaziz Mohammed Saeed Ballaith, from Mukalla, revealed that he was brought from Saudi Arabia by Abu Nasser to the so-called jihad with the Islamic State.

Another ISIS operative, Ahmed Nasser Omar Bazzuhair, said he was recruited from Saudi Arabia and lured to fight with the group in Yemen, noting that the group’s operatives moved its fighters from Hadhramaut to Bayda.

According to the confessions of al-Qaeda and ISIS members, they were involved in the targeting of army vehicles and popular committees in Bayda with several improvised explosive devices.

Al-Qaeda and ISIS members have been hit hard by the army and popular committees in Qaifa areas and have been cleansed of all coalition-funded takfirist elements.