A number of MIT agents have recently been arrested by the security forces of the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria. The Rojava based ANHA news agency conducted interviews with some of these detainees, who openly report on their activities in the region. One of these agents is Mustafa Osman. He tells about the recruitment and development of militias by MIT in northern and eastern Syria.

Mustafa Osman comes from the village Minazê near Kobanê. He fled to Ankara in 2013. There, the then 25-year-old was recruited by MIT and, under the leadership of MIT agents, was assigned the task of recruiting militiamen in northern Syria. He received a sum of money for each recruit. Osman tells that the aim of MIT in the region is to kill leaders of the autonomous administration and thereby weaken the autonomous region. MIT has set up a special unit for this purpose.

This special unit also investigated Kurdish and Arabic personalities. If these persons travelled to Northern Kurdistan, they should be pursued and arrested by MIT. This was also one of the tasks of Mustafa Osman. He also collected personal data of people who worked for the autonomous administration and passed them on to MIT.

Mustafa Osman reports the following on his training in Ankara: "We were trained in a base near Ankara. After the training, we signed a contract with MIT for 9,000 TL. Osman remarks that not only people from Syria were trained at the base, but also Iraqis, Egyptians, Pakistanis, Chinese, Arabs, people from Qatar and Afghanistan. These people were set to be sent to other countries after their training.

Mustafa Osman says that he was sent to Idlib via the al-Hawa border crossing in al-Bab after his training with the help of a militia commander. From there he travelled to the self-governing areas in spring 2020. He drove around Kobanê in his father's vehicle and took photographs of five checkpoints. He sent the pictures to MIT. He was caught shortly afterwards during an operation by the security forces.

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