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Topic: Mohammed Haydar Zammar


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  Mohammed Haydar Zammar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mohammed Haydar Zammar (محمد حيدر زمار) (born in 1961 in Aleppo, Syria) is a Muslim jihadist who served as an important al-Qaida recruiter.
Zammar, a German citizen, was born in Syria.
Zammar is also known to have met frequently with Said Bahaji in Germany in 2000.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mohammed_Haydar_Zammar   (810 words)

  
 washingtonpost.com: Hamburg's Cauldron of Terror
Mohammed Haydar Zammar was born in 1961 in Halab, Syria, and moved to Germany in 1971 with his father.
Mohammed, whose family is from the province of Baluchistan in Pakistan, had long viewed planes as instruments of terror and assumed an increasingly important role within al Qaeda's military structure.
Mohammed said it was his idea to target prominent buildings in the United States, and he said Atta and other operatives were earmarked as pilots sometime in 1999.
personal.ecu.edu /conradtd/pols2010/Fall023234/FALL023234030.htm   (4541 words)

  
 NationMaster.com - Encyclopedia: Mohammed Haydar Zammar   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Mohammed Haydar Zammar The copyright status of this work is difficult or impossible to determine.
Mohammed Atta is a name commonly used to refer to the following individuals: Mohamed Atta al Sayed was the Al-Qaeda suicide pilot of the first plane to crash into the World Trade Center during the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
Zammar is also known to have met frequently with (additional info and facts about Said Bahaji) Said Bahaji in Germany in 2000.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Mohammed-Haydar-Zammar   (2023 words)

  
 washingtonpost.com: German at Center Of Sept. 11 Inquiry
Zammar was a charismatic advocate of Muslims' obligation to engage in holy war, a stance he articulated in a radical Hamburg mosque, officials said.
Zammar, who German officials said is a veteran of an al Qaeda terrorist training camp in Afghanistan and claimed to have fought in Bosnia, was a frequent visitor to Atta's apartment on Marien Street in Hamburg.
Mohammed, a 37-year-old Kuwaiti, surfaced in news reports last week after he was described by Abu Zubaida, a recently captured high-ranking al Qaeda leader, as the person who "came up with the plan" to hijack four airliners and target the World Trade Center towers and the Pentagon, a senior administration official said.
www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A34740-2002Jun11?language=printer   (1713 words)

  
 Mohamed Atta al-Sayed - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mohamed Atta al-Sayed (Arabic: محمد عطا السيد) (September 1, 1968 – September 11, 2001) was named by the FBI as the suicide pilot of the first plane to crash into the World Trade Center during the September 11, 2001 attacks.
Initially, Mohamed Atta's identity was confused with that of a native Jordanian, Mahmoud Mahmoud Atta, who bombed a bus in 1986 on the Israel-occupied West Bank, killing one and severely injuring three.
His father, Mohamed el-Amir Atta, a retired lawyer in Egypt, characterized this accusation in an interview as ridiculous, calling his son gentle and shy.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mohammed_Atta   (4037 words)

  
 Mohammed Haydar Zammar   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Mohamed Atta and al-Qaeda operatives Said Bahaji and Ramzi Bin al-Shibh move into a four bedroom apartment at 54 Marienstrasse, in Hamburg, Germany, and stay there until February 2001 (Atta is already living primarily in the US well before this time).
Mohammed Haydar Zammar, who holds joint German and Syrian citizenship, is arrested in Morocco, where he is reportedly interrogated by US agents.
Zammar is suspected of having served as a recruiter for al-Qaeda.
www.cooperativeresearch.org /entity.jsp?entity=mohammed_haydar_zammar   (3767 words)

  
 Cageprisoners.com - serving the caged prisoners in Guantanamo Bay
Zammar left Syria when he was about four years old, and then lived in Germany where he obtained citizenship.
Zammar was arrested in Morocco in October or November 2001, then secretly transferred to Damascus, Syria, where he was interrogated by Syrian authorities, with American knowledge.
It was also mentioned that Zammar was known to have been a very well-built man at the time of his arrest, but was now "skeletal".
www.cageprisoners.com /prisoners.php?id=1340   (330 words)

  
 A Tale of Extraordinary Renditions and Double-Standards
Zammar, nicknamed "Fratello Mohammed" in Italy and "Bruder Haydar" (Brother Haydar) in Germany, was a known entity in Islamist circles.
Mohammed Haydar Zammar and his family were then living with his brother in low-income housing on Bilserstrasse in the north part of Hamburg -- nine people in a two-room, ground floor apartment.
Zammar took the officials on a journey back in time into the 1990s, to a Germany that had its hands full dealing with right-wing extremists and German reunification, a Germany in which Islamic fundamentalism was allowed to flourish without hindrance.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1526450/posts   (5106 words)

  
 Why War? Key Figure in Sept. 11 Plot Held in Secret Detention in Syria
The debriefing of Mohammed Haydar Zammar, a German citizen of Syrian origin who has told his interrogators that he recruited key hijacker Mohammed Atta, is an extraordinary example of the way Sept. 11 has redefined U.S. engagement with regimes it once vilified.
Zammar is being held by the Syrian authorities on long-standing charges that he was involved in a bombing plot in the country, Arab officials said.
Zammar, a veteran of an al Qaeda terrorist training camp in Afghanistan who claimed to have fought in Bosnia, was a frequent visitor to Atta's now-infamous Marien Street apartment, regularly pulling up in an old car and carrying boxes of material into the second-floor walk-up.
www.why-war.com /news/2002/06/18/keyfigur.html   (728 words)

  
 MSNBC
Mohammed, one of the FBI's most-wanted terrorists, was captured in a raid in Rawalpindi, near the Pakistani capital of Islamabad, on March 1, 2003.
An al-Qaida recruiter who allegedly enlisted Mohammed Atta and other key members of the terrorist cell that carried out the Sept. 11 attacks while preaching at a mosque in Hamburg, Germany, in the mid- to late-1990s, reportedly is being held in Syria.
Zammar, a German of Syrian descent, was arrested in Morocco after leaving Germany on Oct. 27, 2001, and was subsequently transferred to Syrian custody.
www.msnbc.com /modules/wtc/wtc_globaldragnet/custody_alqaida.htm   (1212 words)

  
 Al Qaeda Recruiter Reportedly Tortured (washingtonpost.com)
Zammar is a loud and arrogant man, acquaintances and investigators said, and his sense of impunity after Sept. 11 cost him his freedom.
Under interrogation in Morocco, they said, Zammar acknowledged playing a role in the formation and radicalization of the Hamburg cell, but held firm that after the hijackers went to Afghanistan for training and orders for a specific mission, he was shut out of their plans.
Zammar was interrogated first at the headquarters of Morocco's internal security agency, which is tucked away in a forest on the edge of the capital, Rabat.
www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A3684-2003Jan30¬Found=true   (1788 words)

  
 Mohammed Haydar Zammar   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Mohammed Haydar Zammar (محمد حيدر زمار) (born in 1961 in Halab Aleppo quick summary:
: mohammed atta is also the name of a governor of afghanistans balkh province....
Zammar is also known to have met frequently with Said Bahaji Said Bahaji quick summary:
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/M/Mo/Mohammed_Haydar_Zammar.htm   (1997 words)

  
 BBC News | In Depth | War on Terror | Investigation on Terror
Moussaoui is alleged to have received training in al-Qaeda camps in Afghanistan, sought pilot training and to have received funding from sources in Germany and the Middle East.Before 2001 he lived in London, where he did a Masters degree at South Bank University.
Zammar, a German citizen, was arrested in Morocco after he left Germany in the wake of the attacks.
Zammar is believed to have been in Hamburg with Atta and other members of Atta's cell - including hijackers Marwan al-Shehhi and Ziad Jarrah.
news.bbc.co.uk /hi/english/static/in_depth/world/2001/war_on_terror/investigation_on_terror/people_4.stm   (1131 words)

  
 Report: Terror Suspect Had Been Under German Surveillance in 1999   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Mohammed Haydar Zammar, a Syrian-born German believed to have recruited Mohamed Atta and other Hamburg-based Sept. 11 hijackers into al-Qaida, was investigated by German intelligence in 1999, according to a Saturday magazine report.
Zammar attracted the attention of federal investigators after they learned he had contact with Osama bin Laden's suspected financial chief, Mamdouh Mahmud Salim, who was arrested outside Munich in 1998, Der Spiegel reported.
Zammar is currently in Syrian custody and is being questioned with the knowledge of U.S. authorities, although it is unclear if they have direct contact with him.
www.fromthewilderness.com /timeline/2002/ap062202.html   (448 words)

  
 NationMaster.com - Encyclopedia: Said Bahaji   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The Hamburg cell was born at this apartment.
Bahaji had already been under investigation by German Intelligence for his connections with Mohammed Haydar Zammar, a radical Islamic cleric.
Al-Qaida leader Khalid Sheikh Mohammed told Bahaji in August that if he wanted to go to Afghanistan, he should go in the next few weeks, because it would soon become more difficult.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Said-Bahaji   (815 words)

  
 Mohammed Haydar Zammar - TheBestLinks.com - Afghanistan, Al-Qaida, Al-Qaeda, Damascus, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Mohammed Haydar Zammar, Afghanistan, Al-Qaida, Al-Qaeda, Damascus, Germany...
Mohammed Haydar Zammar (محمد حيدر زمار) (born in 1961 in Halab, Syria) is a Muslim jihadist who served as an important al-Qaida recruiter.
And in 1996, Zammar visited Afghanistan for a second time, this time to become a formar member of the group called al-Qaeda.
www.thebestlinks.com /Mohammed_Haydar_Zammar.html   (714 words)

  
 CreadersNET -- News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The two detentions were in addition to the seven men and women who Moroccan prosecutors said on Tuesday had been arrested in May and June in connection with plotting attacks mainly on U.S. and British ships.
Zammar, of Syrian descent, is a German citizen, according to the German reports.
He is believed to have recruited Mohamed Atta, suspected ringleader of the Sept. 11 hijackers, in Germany, a U.S. official said.
www.creadersnet.com /newsViewer.php?idx=136876   (332 words)

  
 BrothersJudd Blog: JUST THE FACTS:   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Mohammed Haydar Zammar, 44, is one of the latter.
Zammar's cell, cell 13, is reached by taking a left turn at the end of a long corridor.
The letter was the first official sign of life from Mohammed Haydar Zammar, a German citizen, since he was abducted weeks after the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
www.brothersjudd.com /blog/archives/2005/11/just_the_facts_2.html   (805 words)

  
 Democratic Underground Forums - Germans Were Tracking 9/11 Conspirators as Early as 1998
Zammar had been identified a decade earlier by German authorities as a militant.
The investigation into Zammar is perhaps later dropped for lack of evidence, though it continues at least until September 1999 (see February 17, 1999).
German investigators also learn of a connection between Salim and Mohammed Haydar Zammar, who is already identified by police as a suspected extremist (see March 1997).
www.democraticunderground.com /cgi-bin/duforum/duboard.cgi?az=show_thread&om=5474&forum=DCForumID43   (3771 words)

  
 The Puzzle Was Laid Out On The Table
The children of family Zammar were already in bed, when the tape drives of the internal intelligence service recorded the following phone call at exactly 8:48 PM: The father and wife were worried about the devoted follower of Bin Laden, Mohammed Haydar Zammar, who was on the road despite ice and snow.
In syrischer Haft plaudert Zammar seit Monaten über seine engen Kontakte zu den Hamburger Terroristen, bei denen häufig Lauscher der Geheimdienste mithörten.
Zammar wurde häufiger von einem Mann angerufen, der einen in den Vereinigten Arabischen Emiraten zugelassenen Anschluss benutzte.
s3.amazonaws.com /911timeline/2003/derspiegel020303.html   (3454 words)

  
 Worldandnation: Atta's al-Qaida recruiter identified
Zammar's partner and six children are in Hamburg, and his family has filed a missing persons report.
Zammar, who German officials said is a veteran of an al-Qaida terrorist training camp in Afghanistan and claimed to have fought in Bosnia, was a frequent visitor to Atta's apartment on Marien Street in Hamburg.
Before Sept. 11, Zammar had been on a German watch list of suspected Muslim extremists, as was at least one other member of the Hamburg circle, Bahaji, according to an official in Hamburg.
www.sptimes.com /2002/06/12/Worldandnation/Atta_s_al_Qaida_recru.shtml   (513 words)

  
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Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, a 37-year-old Kuwaiti, surfaced in news reports last week after he was described by Abu Zubaida, a recently captured high-ranking al Qaeda leader, as the person who "came up with the plan" to hijack four airliners and target the World Trade Center towers and the Pentagon, a senior administration official said.
Mohamed said that Stultz told him that she and al Muhajir had divorced, and that he had married an Arab woman and moved to Egypt.
Mohamed said he did not know when al Muhajir converted to Islam, and Florida officials said they were uncertain as well.
www.suite101.com /discussion.cfm/investing/68672/654873   (10255 words)

  
 mhijack
Mohammed Haydar Zammar, 41, a German citizen of Syrian origin, disappeared after leaving Hamburg for Morocco in October, but a US counterterrorism official suggested that he is in US custody or is being held in another country.
The suspect, the officials said, was a charismatic advocate at a Hamburg mosque of waging holy war against the West.
After the September 11 attacks, Zammar was quizzed and released by German police.
www.dispatch.co.za /2002/06/13/foreign/MHIJACK.HTM   (230 words)

  
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In addition to intelligence information, officials said, Syria has also giving the CIA access to Mohammed Haydar Zammar, who is believed to have recruited some of the 19 men who hijacked four jetliners and crashed them into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a field in Pennsylvania almost a year ago.
Zammar, 41, a German citizen born in Syria, was allegedly the main contact for lead Sept. 11 hijacker Mohammed Atta.
Zammar, who is being questioned at Syrian secret police headquarters, is talking, as are two dozen other al-Qaida members also imprisoned in Syria, U.S. officials said.
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 CBS News | Top Terror Recruiters Nabbed | June 23, 2002 13:54:29
Mohammed Haydar Zammar leaves a mosque in Hamburg, Germany, in this Oct. 3, 2001 photo.
Zammar, a German of Syrian descent, was sent to Syria, where he remains in custody, according to a German intelligence official, speaking on condition of anonymity.
Zammar was in Hamburg, Germany, with Atta and other members of Atta's cell, including hijackers Marwan al-Shehhi and Ziad Jarrah.
election.cbsnews.com /stories/2002/06/23/attack/main513121.shtml   (751 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | World | Europe | Key terror suspect named
The whereabouts of Mohammed Haydar Zammar, 41, are unknown.
German officials say that Mr Zammar, who strongly advocated Muslim holy war, was a frequent visitor to the Hamburg apartment of Mohammed Atta and other al-Qaeda suicide hijackers.
After the 11 September attacks, Mr Zammar was questioned by German police but they did not have enough evidence to charge him and he left for Morocco.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/low/world/europe/2040566.stm   (406 words)

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