ISIL Kidnaps More than 300, 106 Chinese Workers Fled Before Kidnapping at Damascus Cement Plant

April 8th, 2016

Awake Goy

nsnbc : An ISIL linked battle group kidnapped over 300 workers and contractors from a cement plant located in Abu Al-Shamat in the province of Damascus. The kidnapping comes as ISIL launches more brazen attacks in the region around the Syrian capital Damascus as it is losing territory throughout Syria. 125 Chinese workers who fled the plant on Wednesday before the kidnapping are in safety.

Photo courtesy SANA

The Syrian Ministry of Industry confirmed that an ISIL brigade kidnapped more than 300 workers from the Badiyeh Cement Company, a closed joint-stock company located in Abu Al-Shamat in Damascus province. The Ministry made the announcement about the kidnapping after having the incident confirmed by the company’s administration.

The whereabouts of the 300 new ISIL hostages have not been published and it is at this time uncertain whether Syrian security or military services know their exact whereabouts.

The Ministry stated that is will keep in contact with the company and the parties to gather intelligence about the abductees’ whereabouts and to take steps to have them released.

A Nadim Kreizan, who is a local reconciliation official in the Jeiroud area reportedly contacted the State-run Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) over the phone. Kreizan reportedly saw some 125 of the company’s abducted workers being transported on board ISIL vehicles that headed towards Tal Dakweh on the outskirts of Eastern Ghouta.

Nadim Kreizan added that the reconciliation committee in cooperation with locals in Jeiroud town received 106 workers from the Chinese Factory in al-Dmeir area on Wednesday. The Chinese workers had fled in fear from the self-proclaimed Islamic State a.k.a. ISIS, ISIL or Daesh.

Eastern Ghouta and the Jobar district of Damascus have been fiercely contested since the war in Syria that started in 2011 intensified in 2012. It is possible that the hostages could be held in Eastern Ghouta or Jobar to complicate air raids for Syrian and Russian air forces and to prevent shelling of insurgents’ positions.

Control over the Jobar district and the Jobar entrance to Damascus enables insurgents to receive weapons and troops via Jordan, the Israeli occupied Syrian Golan, Lebanon and Turkey. It was the prospect of losing control over the Jobar entrance that in August 2013 prompted the now deceased Liwa-al-Islam commander Zahran Aloush to order the launch the chemical weapons attack on East Ghouta.

CH/L – nsnbc 08.04.2016

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