The Kurds, an American aligned group in northern Syria, has helped the United States for years fight terrorism in the region. Rather than commit more U.S. troops, the Kurds have been bolstered by American military equipment to help with the fight on the ground.
On Wednesday, senior Kurd officials revealed they had captured Mohammed Haydar Zammar while he was hiding in northern Syria. He is now being interrogated and held by the forces about his involvement with terrorist groups in the region.
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He was then, of course, allowed to leave and go free given the Syrian dictatorship had no interest in thwarting terrorists.
In part because of the civil war in Syria around 2008, Zammar and other hardline radical Islamist prisoners were released from jail. Many eventually returned to the battlefield and joined the Islamic State terrorist group.
Capturing Zammer is a big deal. The Kurds, and possibly American forces, can not extract information from him. Given he played a major role in helping al Qaeda carry out the worst attack on American soil, he could be providing ISIS and other terrorist groups with plans and ideas to carry out other violent attacks.
With Europe's open border policies and mass migration agenda, sick psychopaths like Zammer can conjure up a plethora of ways to carry out large scale attacks against innocent civilians.
While ISIS has largely been decimated since President Donald Trump took office, the group is still plotting and scheming in the shadows. Military officials have long warned that it's impossible to kill a violent ideology, meaning radical Islam will continue to fuel jihadist to carry out attacks against Christians and nonbelievers for many years to