Within Assad’s intelligence-gathering networkpublished at 09:34 Greenwich Imply Time09:34 GMTFeras Kilani
BBC Arabic particular correspondent, in DamascusUnderneath
the streets of Damascus I’ve won get right of entry to to probably the most key websites of the
former Syrian regime’s sprawling community of intelligence businesses which for
a long time tried to brutally overwhelm opposition actions.In
the basement of the state safety headquarters, within the Kafr Sousa district of
the town, is row after row of tiny cells – each and every simply two metres by means of one metre and
safe by means of thick metal doorways. Within, darkish stains mark the filthy partitions. Detainees may well be held in those cells for
months whilst being interrogated and tortured.They
are slightly under street-level, on a hectic street the place each day 1000’s of
unusual Syrians handed by means of, going about their day by day lives only a few metres
from the place their compatriots had been being detained and tortured.A
brief distance away is the Normal Intelligence Directorate, some other a part of
Syria’s former community of secret agent businesses.Right here there are an enormous numbers of data – proof of ways the Assad regime used to watch
its voters. There
is row after row of paper recordsdata in cupboards and, in some rooms, piles of
notebooks stacked from ground to ceiling.Close by
is a pc server room. The flooring and partitions are a pristine white and black knowledge garage devices hum quietly.The
electrical energy has been minimize to a lot of Damascus however it sort of feels that this facility is
so essential it has its personal energy provide.
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