Man tied to 9-11 attacks captured in Syria

Daily Mail:
A Syrian-born German national accused of recruiting 9/11 terrorists has been arrested while fighting in Syria, according to a senior commander.

'Mohammed Haydar Zammar has been arrested by Kurdish security forces in northern Syria and is now being interrogated,' a top Kurdish commander said, without providing further details.

Zammar, a career extremist in his mid-fifties, was mentioned several times in the 9/11 Commission's report, which said he encouraged worshippers at a Hamburg mosque towards terrorism and alleged 9/11 financer Ramzi Binalshibh.

The report also claimed he 'fought in Afghanistan and relished any opportunity to extol the virtues of violent jihad' and took credit for influencing Binalshibh, 9/11 ringleader Mohammed Atta and others in the 'Hamburg Group' following the attack.

Atta hijacked American Airlines Flight 11, which crashed into the North Tower of the World Trade Center in New York.

He was detained in Morocco in December 2001 in an operation involving CIA agents and was handed over to the Syrian authorities two weeks later.

A Syrian court sentenced Zammar to 12 years in prison in 2007 for belonging to the Muslim Brotherhood, a charge that at the time could have resulted in the death penalty.

But conflict broke out in Syria four years later, and many hardline Islamist prisoners were released from jail or broke free and went on to join jihadist groups fighting in the war.
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This capture is another demonstration of the importance of keeping Kurdish allies.  It raises serious questions about the nature of any pull out of US forces from Syria.  The US should consider prosecuting this guy and if convicted placing him in a Supermax facility or take him straight to Gitmo.

Comments

  1. David8:31 AM

    Why does this surprises anyone numerous terrorist groups? Their leaders, including Al Qaeda came to Syria during the Iraq-US War; they were allowed to travel openly in Syria, prior to the Civil war?

    Assad invited this nest of vipers into Syria, gave them protection while they were killing US troops in Iraq. Maybe Assad should have read Aesop fables, Fox, Scorpion, snake, etc.) instead of the Quran.

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