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A man linked to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks<\/a> on the United States has been captured in Syria, according to the Pentagon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe can confirm that Mohammad Haydar Zammar, a Syrian-born German national was captured more than a month ago by SDF partners as part of their ongoing operations to defeat ISIS inside Syria,\u201d Marine Maj. Adrian Rankine-Galloway, a Pentagon spokesman, told Military Times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis terrorist was captured during a unilateral operation by the Syrian Democratic Forces<\/a>,\u201d Rankine-Galloway said. \u201cWe are working with our SDF partners to obtain additional details.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Zammar was named in the 9\/11 Commission Report<\/a> as an “outspoken, flamboyant Islamist” who extolled \u201cthe virtues of violent jihad.\u201d He reportedly helped to recruit the lead 9\/11 hijacker, Mohamed Atta, as well as other members of the \u201cHamburg cell,\u201d according to the 9\/11 Commission<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The commission identifies Zammar as a German citizen from Syria. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

German and U.S. intelligence agencies<\/a> had been aware of Zammar as early as the late 1990s. He reportedly trained in Afghanistan before moving to Germany, where he convinced members of the Hamburg cell to go to their own al-Qaida training camp<\/a> in Afghanistan, according to the commission\u2019s report.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the 9\/11 attacks, Zammar was detained by German authorities, but ultimately released, according to the BBC<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Zammar was later detained in Morocco and flown to Syria on a CIA-affiliated aircraft in the early 2000s, according to Reuters<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mohammed Haydar Zammar leaves a mosque in Hamburg, Germany, in 2001. (Knut Mueller\/Der Spiegel via AP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Zammar was sentenced by a Syrian court in 2007 to 12 years in prison, Reuters reported. His lawyer maintained that Zammar was not connected to the terror attacks, and only attended the same mosques as the hijackers.
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After the Syrian Civil War began, however, Zammar was used in a prisoner exchange between Syrian government officials and Ahrar al-Sham<\/a> \u2014 an Islamist rebel group with a Sunni Salafist bent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the exchange, Zammar eventually appeared to connect on some level with Islamic State fighters, based on a picture of him attending a meeting with them in 2014 that was published by ISIS\u2019 media wing al-Furqan<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis is a strong reminder of the threat posed by ISIS and its network of foreign terrorist fighters that continue to plot to do harm against the Syrian people and the international community,\u201d Rankine-Galloway said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMuch fighting remains to defeat the residual pockets of ISIS and to ensure its lasting defeat in the region. With this terrorist leader’s capture, the SDF have once again proven their effectiveness and ability to disrupt and degrade the ISIS terrorist network in Syria,\u201d Rankine-Galloway added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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