{"id":5389,"date":"2025-08-21T05:45:55","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T05:45:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/i-dont-regret-anything-captured-isis-fighter-speaks-from-death-row\/"},"modified":"2025-08-21T05:45:55","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T05:45:55","slug":"i-dont-regret-anything-captured-isis-fighter-speaks-from-death-row","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/i-dont-regret-anything-captured-isis-fighter-speaks-from-death-row\/","title":{"rendered":"‘I don’t regret anything’: Captured ISIS fighter speaks from death row"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Blindfolded and under armed guard, a captured ISIS fighter is brought before us. <\/p>\n

When the blindfold is removed, he doesn’t look surprised to see a camera crew and several counterterrorism officers, one of whom interrogated him when he was first caught.<\/p>\n

The 24-year-old militant is on death row in Somalia awaiting execution by firing squad, having been accused of being an ISIS commander, as well as a sniper and a member of a two-man bomb squad.<\/p>\n

We’ve been given extremely rare access to speak to him and another ISIS recruit in a secure location in Puntland, the semi-autonomous region of northern Somalia where the terror group has been seizing territory and ruling over terrified communities<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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US and Somali commanders say ISIS is running its global headquarters in Puntland’s caves, financing its activities worldwide.<\/p>\n

Muthar Hamid Qaayid is from Yemen and came to Somalia via a sea route where we’ve witnessed how challenging it is to halt the flow of militant travellers.<\/p>\n

He insists he wasn’t an active participant in the two-man bomb squad – and seems entirely unbothered about the situation he now finds himself in.<\/p>\n

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“I didn’t press the button,” he says. “I just looked. The other man made the bomb and set it off. I didn’t come here to kill Muslims.”<\/p>\n

His partner blew himself up as he was planting the bomb in Bosaso city centre and realised he had been discovered.<\/p>\n

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Officers believe he detonated it prematurely.<\/p>\n

The man in front of us was injured, and we are told he had incriminating bomb-making equipment with him.<\/p>\n

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