Photo Gallery A Recruiter for Terror
Mohammed Haydar Zammar leaving a mosque in Hamburg in October 2001. "We prisoners called our ward the "Tomb of the Living." I was locked up in a tiny cell there for two years and 10 months. It was very narrow and 1.8 meters long."
Mohammed Haydar Zammar today. He claims that he knew nothing about the preparations for the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in the U.S. "In the beginning, I thought it was the Japanese ... as revenge for Hiroshima."
Zammar was arrested a short time after the attacks. "I was kidnapped at the airport. It had probably been arranged by the Americans. In prison, the Moroccans beat me and doused me with cold water until I had almost lost consciousness and was trembling all over my body."
A mass execution at the hands of Islamic State in Palmyra, Syria in 2015. "An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth -- I believe this is also written in the Bible and the Torah."
