Two passports and UN documents in the regime military operation room in Aleppo

(Zaman al-Wasl)- In the building of regime military operations in Assad outskirt in Aleppo, a Syrian resistance fighter who stormed the builiding opened a group of drawers of an office beside a bed, and he saw what would not cross anyone’s mind. He found identification documents including passports and and Ids for persons from different nationalities and UN passports as well as a card issued by the Israeli Ministry of Foregin Affairs.

Zaman al-Wasl recived those documents and others and started to verify the credibility of those documents in an attempt to find a logical explanation that may explain why those documents are found in a military operation room.

Common denominators

The fighter who found the documents says to Zaman al-Wasl that he cannot for sure identify the person who was deployed in the room in the military operations’ building, but the shape of the office suggests it is for a big officer, confirming that there were alcohol battles including Russian ones and lingerie.

The fighter states that the existence of the passports and foreign Ids drew his attention amid all the other documents found in the office the minute of raid.

On a primary look at the passports, one is New Zealand passport whom his holder is an employee at the United Nations and another passport issued by the UN with color blue for an employee of a Bosnian origin in addition to a UN card for the employee from New Zealand. Also, there was another card signed by the ceremonies’ directory in Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs with a photograph of a woman.

After further verification, Zaman al-Wasl found several common denominators between the documents. First, all the documents are old and expired like the UN passport signed with cancelled on most of the passports pages.

The UN card for the employee from New Zealand and his passport have been expired since 16 years and the passport since 4 years.

The card signed in Jerusalem by the ceremonies’ director of Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs goes back to 1989, 27 years.

The second common denominator is that all the documents are linked directly or indirectly with the work and authorities of ministries of foreign affairs meaning they are non-military in the first degree.

This makes it more controversial in why these documents were left like that and why are they present in a military operation room.

The third denominator is between the two UN passport holders and the New Zealand passport. Both were employees in UNIFIL forces in Gholan Heights to resolve conflict and separate between the Syrian Arab Army and occupation army.

UNDOF mission defined in the agreement of disengagement between Syria and Israel. The agreement included a compete and permanent ceasefire between Syria and Israel and stop all military actions by the two countries.

Detailed maps and other attachments were included in the agreement setting the buffer zone between the two parties and the type and number of forces, and weapons on both sides of the buffer zone.

About Joblin and Hodjetch

In the way to arrive at a better explanation, more details had to be obtained from trusted resources to shed light on the biography of the New Zealand and UN passport holders. The first is called Roy Joblin, born in 1967 in Hamilton in New Zealand and he currently is working with UNIFIL in Lebanon.

The information says that Joblin started his career with United Nations since 1993 when he worked in UN mission to Lebanon as a communication expert. In 1995, he moved to Iraq with UNESCO mission as a head of communication department. Few years after, he was deployed to supplies base in Italy as head of communication and information.

Then he worked as a member in mapping and technical survey in peacekeeping management and spent 2002-2003 with UN special envoy in Afghanistan as a head of communication department.

He moved later to work in UN special envoy to Cyprus and in 2006 Joblin joined UNDOV staff accompanied by his wife Daphny who also works as an employee in UNDOV with their two children, Lily (3 years back then) and Sofi (1 year). Their son Scot stayed in New Zealand to finish his studies.

In 2011, Joblin was the head of supporting unit in UNDOV and moved later to UNIFIL Lebanon as the officer in charge of communication and information. Now, he is in charge of supporting unit there. (here , he shows in video starting in the 33rd second).

In the overlapping credible information with Joblin’s UN card, it is clarified that the card was stolen or lost during his involvement in UN committee in Iraq where he started working since 1995.

Concerning Benjamin Hodjetch, the information says he is a Bosnian citizen born in 1976. He started working in UN as a technician in the UN special envoy in Bosnia and in 2004 he moved to work in the UN envoy to Afghanistan as communication officer.

A year later, he worked as a technical expert in the court specialized in war crimes in former Yugoslavia in The Hague court.

In 2006, Hodjetch was deployed in the UNDOV forces in Gholan Heights as a technical expert and he was promoted to head of information technology in the envoy. He is married to Advijia and he has a son called Taymour.

Hebrew but for a non-Israeli woman

By going over the work stations of Joblin and Taymour, it seems that the two men are specialized in the same sector (communication and information sector) and worked in Afghanistan UN envoy where Hodjtech came a year after Joblin left.

In 2006, the two men joined UNDOV and Hodjtech was working under Joblin. Later, Joblin left to UNIFIL envoy in Lebanon end of 2011 and Hodjetch took over his post as a head of communication sector in UNDOV.

Hodjetch carries a passport with many visa stamps including a residence permit given by regime ministry of foreign affairs (ceremonies’ directory).

Regarding the card written in Hebrew, it is likely for a woman from Iceland called Maria Seamundsson. The card is issued by the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1998 and signed by ceremonies directory.

Usually, the Israeli Foreign Ministry gives these cards to those who work in international organizations (this was mentioned in the card). The card aims to facilitate their crossing of checkpoints between West Bank and Ghaza strip as well as between those and green line areas.

The most important point which should be confirmed here is that the card is not for an Israeli passport holder, but it is issued by the Israeli foreign ministry.

Like any official document, the card includes the statement-in case of card being lost, it should be given to nearest police center-but the regime chose to keep the card and other UN document for purposes open to many possibilities.

Possibilities

Although the first impression suggests that these documents are insignificant since they are expired, but regime keeping those documents give a different impression. The regime placing these documents in one of the most sensitive military points show different indicators.

The first can be that the regime intended to use the data of these documents for his personnel and spies to cross opposition-controlled areas or to infiltrate those areas.

The Assad regime is known in his legacy of manipulating documents and fraud including the biggest deceit which Zaman al-Wasl published with documentations.

Zaman al-Wasl documented regime printing of more than 63000 cards of internal security forces and distributed them end of 2011 on its army officers and intelligence to disguise them on the Arab Observers envoy and present those card holders as security force. (For more information, press here).

In addition to using it by its agents and personnel, there is another possibility.

This possibility is linked with making a scenario to claim the existence of Israeli and foreign experts and fighters in opposition ranks and the examples of these regime scenarios are many to the degree that it is difficult to mention all beside it being a waste of time since they are all a failure since day one of the Syrian revolution.

There is a third possibility that may explain why regime officers or its mercenaries have kept these documents.

It is either they hoped to find a wealthy costumer for these documents to pay dollars since the trade of documents make a lot of profit and widespread in many areas in Syria under regime surveillance and sometimes with their participation.

Regardless of possibilities, the thing that cannot be a possibility is condemning the regime for permitting the use of these documents without considering the legal duty which obligates him to deliver the documents to the parties issuing them or at least to their owners since the regime is a legitimate authority as the UN acknowledges it to be and refuses to believe the regime is a gang despite millions of Syrians’ testimonies and despite many facts proving that. This maybe another fact added to the list.