The following are excerpts from the interrogation of Iraqi Terrorist Hasan Al-Khafaji. Al-Iraqiya TV (Iraq) aired it on March 9, 2005: Hassan Al-Khafaji: Hassan Naeb Muhammad Hassan Al-Khafaji. Interviewer: Known as Hassan the butcher. To which did you belong? Hassan Al-Khafaji: To the army of Islam - the Al-Tawhid and Al-Jihad Brigades. I meant during the days of the accursed Saddam. Hassan Al-Khafaji: I belonged to Saddam's fedaiyyun. Interviewer: And who do you belong to now? Hassan Al-Khafaji: To the Army of Islam - the Ansar Al-Sunna Brigades. Interviewer: To the army of Anasar Al-Sunna? Hassan Al-Khafaji: Yes, sir. Interviewer: The Al-Tawhid and Al-Jihad Brigades? Hassan Al-Khafaji: Yes. Interviewer: Who did you slaughter in Al- Ghazaliyya? Hassan Al-Khafaji: The squad kidnapped two foreigners from the Al-Mansour neighborhood, where the embassies are. Interviewer: They kidnapped two foreigners? Hassan Al-Khafaji: Yes. Interviewer: From where? Hassan Al-Khafaji: From the Al-Mansour neighborhood, where the embassies are. Interviewer: Hassan Al-Khafaji: In Al-Ghazaliyya. Interviewer: Where did you throw the bodies? Hassan Al-Khafaji: On the road leading to Abu Ghuraib. Interviewer: Who did the actual slaughtering? Hassan Al-Khafaji: Hamed 'Odwan 'Azzar. Interviewer: How many pills did you take before each operation? Hassan Al-Khafaji: Three to five pills, sir. Interviewer: You take three to five pills before each operation to numb your senses, so you wouldn't know who you are facing? Hassan Al-Khafaji: Yes. Interviewer: And so you wouldn't know who you were about to kill. Hassan Al-Khafaji: Yes, sir. Interviewer: And all this was just for $100-150, right? Hassan Al-Khafaji: Yes, sir. Interviewer: Who gave you the money? Hassan Al-Khafaji: Sheik Mahdi Al-Sumayda'i. |