(Zaman al-Wasl) A dissident Colonel presented details about the faculty of artillery following the Syrian resistance’s announcement a few hours ago of its liberation. The colonel described it as one of the oldest military institutions in Syria and its most fortified.
The Colonel Bashar Saad al-Din said the School of Artillery located on the al-Ramouseh hill is part of the military schools group known as Saif al-Dawleh al-Hamadani Barracks and it is considered one of the oldest military institutions nationally.
Saad al-Din who studied in the same school indicated that it was responsible for training personal on using all kinds of artillery, land-land missiles, and anti-tank missiles, and that officers and specialized officers have graduated from the school over the past 50 years describing it as a fortified castle with a material and psychological effect at the military level.
Saad al-Din added saying, this institution contains artillery equipment for around 80 artillery pieces, 6 ammunition stores, light weapon stores, signaling, armament, engineering, military missions as well as a training compound containing a training base that is worth millions.
The Colonel highlighted what he described as the most important events the artillery school witnessed and of them, “it was the center for executions for the leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood at the end of the 1970s, and all other persons sentenced with execution.” Other than, “the artillery incident led by the Captain and hero Ibrahim al-Yusef in 1979 which was a turning point in the school’s history.”
Saad al-Din said that at the start of the revolution, he observed with his officer colleagues the way the regime dealt with the revolting people, confirming that the school played “a big role in bombing Aleppo’s countryside and Idlib’s countryside with hundreds of shells every day, around 400 shells on average daily.” He continued, “the school command prevented all Sunni officers from participating in the shelling for fear of their dissent with their weapons.”
The Colonel stated that the savage massacres the regime committed led him and 18 other officers serving in the school to dissent. They are, the Staff Brigadier Abed al-Majid Dabis, the Staff Brigadier Akram Saad al-Din, the Colonel Hussein Akidi, the Colonel Imad Kokash, the Colonel Jihad al-Sayed, the Staff Colonel Abdul Moueen Stouf, the Staff Colonel Talib al-Dayikh, the martyred Lieutenant Colonel Mohammad Dali, the Staff Lieutenant Colonel Aymen Jumah, the Major Yasir Abulrahman, the Major Mohammad al-Aswad, the Major Tamam Wouhoud, the Major Mohammad Hamdoush, the Major Isam Ali, the Major Ibrahim Mtawaa, the Captain Mohammad Kadour, the Captain Ali Kosoum.
Saad al-Din confirmed that the free officers in the artillery school were many but he cannot mention them all. He indicated that the artillery school because, later, an operation headquarters led by Iranian officers, and he concluded by blessing the liberation of the school and naming it The Martyred Captain Ibrahim Yousef Barracks.
The Colonel Bashar Saad al-Din said the School of Artillery located on the al-Ramouseh hill is part of the military schools group known as Saif al-Dawleh al-Hamadani Barracks and it is considered one of the oldest military institutions nationally.
Saad al-Din who studied in the same school indicated that it was responsible for training personal on using all kinds of artillery, land-land missiles, and anti-tank missiles, and that officers and specialized officers have graduated from the school over the past 50 years describing it as a fortified castle with a material and psychological effect at the military level.
Saad al-Din added saying, this institution contains artillery equipment for around 80 artillery pieces, 6 ammunition stores, light weapon stores, signaling, armament, engineering, military missions as well as a training compound containing a training base that is worth millions.
The Colonel highlighted what he described as the most important events the artillery school witnessed and of them, “it was the center for executions for the leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood at the end of the 1970s, and all other persons sentenced with execution.” Other than, “the artillery incident led by the Captain and hero Ibrahim al-Yusef in 1979 which was a turning point in the school’s history.”
Saad al-Din said that at the start of the revolution, he observed with his officer colleagues the way the regime dealt with the revolting people, confirming that the school played “a big role in bombing Aleppo’s countryside and Idlib’s countryside with hundreds of shells every day, around 400 shells on average daily.” He continued, “the school command prevented all Sunni officers from participating in the shelling for fear of their dissent with their weapons.”
The Colonel stated that the savage massacres the regime committed led him and 18 other officers serving in the school to dissent. They are, the Staff Brigadier Abed al-Majid Dabis, the Staff Brigadier Akram Saad al-Din, the Colonel Hussein Akidi, the Colonel Imad Kokash, the Colonel Jihad al-Sayed, the Staff Colonel Abdul Moueen Stouf, the Staff Colonel Talib al-Dayikh, the martyred Lieutenant Colonel Mohammad Dali, the Staff Lieutenant Colonel Aymen Jumah, the Major Yasir Abulrahman, the Major Mohammad al-Aswad, the Major Tamam Wouhoud, the Major Mohammad Hamdoush, the Major Isam Ali, the Major Ibrahim Mtawaa, the Captain Mohammad Kadour, the Captain Ali Kosoum.
Saad al-Din confirmed that the free officers in the artillery school were many but he cannot mention them all. He indicated that the artillery school because, later, an operation headquarters led by Iranian officers, and he concluded by blessing the liberation of the school and naming it The Martyred Captain Ibrahim Yousef Barracks.
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