War Against Terrorism

Abdalaziz Alhamza “RBSS”

In 2014, the United States gathered more than sixty countries in order to eliminate the terrorist group ISIS this was after putting ISIS on the terror list. US started its war against terrorism sixteen years ago in Afghanistan.

The US and other countries are showing of just because they are among the countries that established the International Coalition against ISIS, they even take advantage of their soldier’s death or injury. So this is how countries do the work, they transform a national historical issue into a war against terrorist group occurred in the last two years not to mention their alliance with the original criminal, the real terrorist and dictator.

This is how countries sponsor and fight terrorists at the same time, but what is our business in all of that? And by (we) I mean the people of the terror capital, the cousins of the terrorists and their victims.

Yes, we are the people of Raqqa who are accused of being ISIS supporters despite the fact that the first one who gave them their name (Dash) and said that they are not original Muslims is from Raqqa. In this same date, the US was watching by their drones how prisoners escaped Bucca prison in Iraq.

At the same time of giving ISIS its Arab name (Daesh), youths of Raqqa established several campaigns to paint the walls of the city with the revolution flag when they noticed that the black flags are spreading in their city. At the same time the preparation of the local council was on full swing in a city that Arab Sunnis are 99% of the population.

The summer of 2013 was very nice and beautiful; people were sitting in streets and cafes having fun. But soon the situation changed, instead of sitting in cafes people started demonstrating in front of the churches when ISIS fighters started their violations against the churches.
At the same month, more than thirty civilians were killed by mortar shells coming from the 17th division which was three kilometers north Raqqa. After this shelling, the free Syrian army launched a military campaign against the regime army in the 17th division from three axes, North, East and West but southern the division, there were other forces holding yellow flags and called (YPG) but after some time it turned out that these troops southern the division are entering military and non military aids.

This is us, the terrorists, we demonstrated and shouted (Raqqa is free and ISIS get out) when ISIS exploded Ahfad Alrasul headquarter, we are the ones who helped the injuries of Ahfad Alrasul, we are the ones how stood against the RPG missiles during our demonstrations against ISIS.
The revolution was ongoing and demonstrations were also ongoing, everyone was expressing his mind freely, in our demonstrations there were Kurdish flags next to the revolution flag and after few months, assassinations and kidnapping started, we do not forget father Paolo, Nicolas, Folli, Peter Kasing and the others.
We mobilized against terrorism and fought them by anything we have, our thoughts, cams and pens. We have lost our best friends, our city and our life we have been hanging around the streets of Turkey and Europe for three years.

media activist from the city of Raqqa, student at the Faculty of Law at the University of the Euphrates. Director of the Media Office of Raqqa, founding member of "Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently", founding member of the documentary project of "Sound and Picture". I work in documenting violations committed by Assad's regime and ISIS group and extremist organizations inside the city of Raqqa, as I work in programming, design and visual media. I hold a certificate of coach in digital security, and a certificate of journalist coach, and a certificate in documenting violations against human rights, and a certificate in electronic advocacy. I underwent a training under the supervision of "Cyber-Arabs" in collaboration with the Institute for War and Peace "IWPR", about the management of electronic websites and leadership of advocacy campaigns, and a training of press photography under the supervision of the photojournalist "Peter Hove Olesen".