US intelligence suggests American who vanished in Syria in 2017 has died, daughter says she was told

FILE – Maryam Kamalmaz hold a photo of her father with some of his 14 grandchildren in Grand Prairie, Texas, Jan. 17, 2024. U.S. officials have developed specific and highly credible intelligence suggesting that Majd Kamalmaz, an American citizen who disappeared seven years ago while traveling in Syria has died, Maryam Kamalmaz said Saturday, May 18.

The officials told her that on a scale of one to 10, their confidence level about her father’s death was a “high nine.” She said she asked whether other detained Americans had ever been successfully recovered in the face of such credible information, and was told no. “What more do I need? That was a lot of high-level officials that we needed to confirm to us that he’s really gone. There was no way to beat around the bush,” Maryam Kamalmaz said.

She said officials told her they believe the death occurred years ago, early in her father’s captivity. In 2020, she said, officials told the family that they had reason to believe that he had died of heart failure in 2017, but the family held out hope and U.S. officials continued their pursuit. But, she said, “Not until this meeting did they really confirm to us how credible the information is and the different levels of it had to go through.”A spokesperson for the White House declined to comment Saturday and spokespeople for the FBI, which investigates abductions in foreign countries, did not immediately return an email seeking comment.disappeared in February 2017 at the age of 59 while traveling in Syria to visit an elderly family member.

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