Officials told CNN on Saturday that Colonel Gulmurod Khalimov, a former head of Tajikistan’s special forces, took part in counterterrorism courses as part of a program sponsored by the State Department.
ISIL militant Colonel Gulmurod Khalimov was trained on American soil by Blackwater.
Blackwater Worldwide, which is now known as Academi and is based in
McLean, Virginia, is the most notorious private security firm that had
operated in Iraq and Afghanistan.In his online video, Khalimov appears in black ISIL clothing with a sniper rifle and a bandolier of ammunition, claiming that he attended programs on American soil three times.
State Department spokeswoman Pooja Jhunjhunwala confirmed his claims.
“From 2003-2014 Colonel Khalimov participated in five counterterrorism training courses in the United States and in Tajikistan, through the Department of State’s Diplomatic Security/Anti-Terrorism Assistance program,” said Jhunjhunwala.
The program trains candidates from participating countries in the counterterrorism techniques, so they can fight terrorists.
The militant was trained in crisis response, tactical management of special events, tactical leadership training and other related issues, according to a State Department official.
Khalimov says in the video that what he witnessed during his training in the US turned him against Washington.
“Listen, you American pigs: I’ve been to America three times. I saw how you train soldiers to kill Muslims,” he says in Russian. “You taught your soldiers how to surround and attack, in order to exterminate Islam and Muslims.”
The ISIL terrorists, who were initially trained by the CIA in Jordan in 2012 to destabilize the Syrian government, now control large parts of Iraq and Syria.
Since last year, the US and some of its allies have been carrying out airstrikes against ISIL inside Iraq and Syria.
On February 19, the United States and Turkey inked an agreement to train and arm what they call “moderate” militants in Syria.
The Pentagon has deployed hundreds of Special Forces to the Middle East to train “moderate” militants to fight ISIL terrorists.
Global Research, May 31, 2015
The confiscated drugs, which was floating in the sea in leather bags, consisted of more than 800 kilograms of hashish paste and nearly six million tablets of Captagon, the drug of choice by the members of the terrorist group Islamic State (IS).
The general director of Ports of Latakia, Maitham al-Yousuf, told reporters that the stash was spotted on Saturday by a patrol that ran along the beach, about 400 kilometers northwest of the capital.
For his part, Latakia Governor Ibrahim Khader al-Salem accused the countries that sponsor terrorism against Syria of being responsible for the drug.
“It is a desperate attempt at destabilizing national security and sabotaging the minds of young people by preventing them from exercising their normal life and trying to continue their education,” said the governor.
According to experts, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) began production of Captagon in 2011 in a laboratory in Bulgaria and it is now manufactured elsewhere in the world.
Part of the profits from the illegal trade in Captagon, experts say, is used to finance armed extremist groups that are trying to overthrow the Syrian government led by President Bashar al-Assad.
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