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'Flamboyant' Extremist Linked To Terrorism Captured. wochitnews on Apr 19, 2018 A German extremist with links to Sept. 11 mastermind Mohamed Atta and other al Qaeda attackers has been detained in Syria …More
'Flamboyant' Extremist Linked To Terrorism Captured.
wochitnews on Apr 19, 2018 A German extremist with links to Sept. 11 mastermind Mohamed Atta and other al Qaeda attackers has been detained in Syria, the AFP news agency reported late Wednesday. “Mohammed Haydar Zammar has been arrested by Kurdish security forces in northern Syria and is now being interrogated,” AFP quoted a Kurdish military commander as saying. NBC News was not immediately able to independently confirm the report. According to the official Congressional report into the 9/11 attacks, Zammar is a Syrian-born German national who lived in Hamburg. It described him as an "outspoken, flamboyant Islamist" and a "possible recruiter" of some 9/11 attackers