Mohammed Haydar Zammar محمد حيدر زمار | |
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Born | 1961 (age 63–64) Aleppo, Syria |
Arrested | October 2001 Morocco Moroccan police |
Citizenship | German |
Detained at | Far' Falastin prison, Damascus, Syria |
Alleged to be a member of | Formerly Al-Qaeda, now Islamic State |
Status | Under custody of the YPG as of April 2018 |
Mohammed Haydar Zammar (Arabic: محمد حيدر زمار Muḥammad Ḥaydar Zammār) (born 1961) [1] is a Syrian-German militant who served as an important al-Qaida recruiter,[2][3] and is currently a member of the Islamic State. He claims to have recruited many of the organizers of the September 11 attacks. He was detained in Far'Falastin.
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