Mohammed Haydar Zammar

Mohammed Haydar Zammar
محمد حيدر زمار
Born1961 (age 6364)
Aleppo, Syria
ArrestedOctober 2001
Morocco
Moroccan police
CitizenshipGerman
Detained at Far' Falastin prison, Damascus, Syria
Alleged to be
a member of
Formerly Al-Qaeda, now Islamic State
StatusUnder custody of the YPG as of April 2018

Mohammed Haydar Zammar (Arabic: محمد حيدر زمار Muḥammad Ḥaydar Zammār) (born 1961) is a Syrian-German militant who served as an important al-Qaida recruiter, 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.