The Al Farouq training camp, also called Jihad Wel al-Farouq, [1] was a Taliban and Al-Qaeda training camp near Kandahar, Afghanistan. Camp attendees received small-arms training, map-reading, orientation, explosives training, and other training. Nasir al-Bahri reported that the camp was only established following the arrival of Egyptian Islamic Jihad and Egyptian Islamic Group militants who had suitable expertise as to provide training to others. [2]
The United States attacked the area with cruise missiles on August 20, 1998, in retaliation for the 1998 embassy bombings. [3] [4] It continued to operate until August 2001, when it was shut down by its trainers. [5] The camp was bombed again on October 10, 2001. [6]
According to U.S. intelligence analysts, the director of the Al Farouq camp was a Saudi named Abdul Quduz, who was later one of the commanders at the battle of Tora Bora. [7] [8] [9]
Abu Walid al Masri (b. 1945), one of the Afghan Arabs who fought as volunteers in the 1980s against the Soviet Union, had stayed in Afghanistan after the Soviet withdrawal. During the mid-1990s, at the age of about 50, he served as a senior trainer at the camp. [10] In this period, various ethnic factions in Afghanistan were competing for power, with the Taliban soon to emerge in control. Saif al-Adel stated that Asim al-Yamani was also a trainer at the camp. [11]
John Walker Lindh [12] |
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David Hicks [13] |
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L'Houssaine Kherchtou |
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Saeed al-Ghamdi [13] |
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Ahmed al-Nami [13] |
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Wail al-Shehri [13] |
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Waleed al-Shehri [13] |
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Mushabib al-Hamlan [15] |
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Khalid al Zahrani [13] |
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Yusef al-Ayeri [16] |
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Abdul Aziz Adbullah Ali Al Suadi [17] |
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Sadeq Muhammad Sa'id Ismail [18] | |||
Feroz Abbasi [19] |
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Allal Ab Aljallil Abd Al Rahman Abd [20] |
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Bashir Nashir Al-Marwalah [21] |
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Khaled Qasim [22] |
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Ziyad bin Salih bin Muhammad Al Bahooth [23] |
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Ali Yahya Mahdi Al Raimi [24] |
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Ali Husayn Abdullah Al Tays [25] |
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Musab Omar All Al Mudwani [26] |
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Mukhtar Al-Bakri, Sahim Alwan, Faysal Galab, Shafal Mosed, Yaseinn Taher, and Yahya Goba [27] |
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Mesh Arsad Al Rashid [28] |
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Faiz Mohammed Ahmed Al Kandari [29] |
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Yasin Qasem Muhammad Ismail [30] |
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Mishal Awad Sayaf Alhabiri [31] |
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Mohammad Fazil [32] |
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Abdul Hakim Bukhary [33] |
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Abd Al Razzaq Abdallah Ibrahim Al Tamini [34] |
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Sa id Salih Sa id Nashir [35] |
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Ghallab Bashir [36] |
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Mohammed Souleimani Laalami [37] |
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Muhammad Hamid Al Qarani [38] |
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Fawaz Naman Hamoud Abdallah Mahdi [39] |
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Khalid Mallah Shayi Al Jilba Al Qahtani [40] |
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Sami Abdul Aziz Salim Allaithy [41] |
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Ibrahimj Sulayman Muhammad Arbaysh [42] |
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Ahmed Rashidi [43] |
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Fahed Al Harazi [44] |
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Ali Ahmad Muhammad Al Rahizi [45] |
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Walid Said Bin Said Zaid [46] |
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Nayif Fahd Mutliq Al Usaymi [47] |
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Ali Mohsen Salih [48] |
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Mohammed Abd Al Al Qadir [49] |
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Fahed Abdullah Ahmad Ghazi [50] |
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Arkan Mohammad Ghafil Al Karim [51] |
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Abu Zaid Al-Kuwaiti [52] | |||
Ibrahim Othman Ibrahim Idris [53] |
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Mohammed Ahmed Binyam [54] |
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Mohammad Ahmed Abdullah Saleh Al Hanashi [55] |
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Al Silm Haji Hajjaj Awwad Al Hajjaji [56] |
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Abu Bakr Ibn Ali Muhhammad Alahdal [57] |
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Tarek Ali Abdullah Ahmed Baada [58] |
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Muhhammad Said Bin Salem [59] |
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Muieen A Deen Jamal A Deen Abd Al Fusal Abd Al Sattar [60] |
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Ayoub Murshid Ali Saleh [61] |
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Mahmud Salem Horan Mohammed Mutlak Al Ali [62] |
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Faizal Saha Al Nasir [63] |
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Amran Baqur Mohammed Hawsawi [64] |
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Hani Saiid Mohammad Al Khalif [65] |
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Muhammad Ahmad Abdallah Al Ansi [66] |
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Majid Al Barayan |
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Zahar Omar Hamis Bin Hamdoun [68] |
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Ravil Mingazov [69] |
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Khalid Mohammed Salih Al Dhuby [70] |
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Turki Mash Awi Zayid Al Asiri [71] |
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Abbas Habid Rumi Al Naely [72] |
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Sameur Abdenour [73] |
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Mahmoud Omar Mohammed Bin Atef [74] |
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Fahmi Salem Said Al Sani [75] |
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Mahrar Rafat Al Quwari [76] |
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Saed Khatem Al Malki [77] |
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Mohammed Ahmed Said Haidel [78] |
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Khalid Hassan Husayn Al Barakat [79] |
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Said Muhammed Salih Hatim [80] |
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Ahmed Yaslam Said Kuman [81] | The detainee attended training at al Farouq, participating in Advanced Commando training in Kandahar, Afghanistan. Training consisted of rappelling, sniper training, kidnapping, assassinations, poisons and explosives. | ||
Umran Bakr Muhammad Hawsawi [82] |
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Abdul Rahman Umir Al Qyati [83] |
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Saleh Mohamed Al Zuba [84] |
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Nayif Abdallah Ibrahim Al Nukhaylan |
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Mustafa Abdul Qawi Abdul Aziz Al Shamyri [86] |
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Umran Bakr Muhammad Hawsawi [82] |
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Abdullah Yahia Yousf Al Shabli [87] |
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Abdul Rahman Nashi Badi Al Hataybi [88] |
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Tariq Shallah Hasan Al Alawi Al Harbi [89] |
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Humud Dakhil Humud Sa'id Al Jad'an [90] |
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Nabil Hadjarab [91] |
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Mohammad Bawazir [92] |
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Muhammad Abd Al Nasir Muhammad Khantumani [93] |
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Salman Yahya Hassan Mohammed Rabeii [94] [95] |
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Ahmed Bin Kadr Labed [96] [97] |
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Mohammed Nasir Yahya Khusruf [98] [99] |
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Ghanim Abdul Rahman Al Harbi [100] |
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Tariq Mahmoud Ahmed Al Sawah [101] |
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Mohammed Ahmed Salam [102] |
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Ha Il Aziz Ahmed Al Maythali [103] |
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Muhsin Muhammad Musheen Moqbill [104] |
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Saleh Ali Jaid Al Khathami [105] |
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Fahd Salih Sulayman Al Jutayli [106] |
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Fahed Nasser Mohamed [107] |
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Assem Matruq Mohammad Al Aasmi [108] |
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Abdel Ghalib Ahmad Hakim [109] |
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Murtada Ali Said Maqram [110] |
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Emad Abdalla Hassan [111] |
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Ibrahim Mahdy Achmed Zeidan [112] |
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Ibrahim Bin Shakran |
first annual Administrative Review Board, on 18 July 2005 stated: [113]
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: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)The detainee relocated from the Jalalabad, Afghanistan safehouse to one of the rear echelon camps in the Tora Bora region. The detainee was shown to his position by Abdul Quduz.
When the detainee arrived in Tora Bora, Afghanistan, he was shown to his position. A Saudi Arabian who led the position issued the detainee a Kalashnikov and showed him where to go. There were between 10 and 12 Arabs in this position.
When the detainee arrived in Tora Bora, Afghanistan he was shown to his position. A Saudi Arabian, who led the position, issued the detainee a Kalashnikov and showed him where to go. There were between 10 and 12 Arabs in the detainee's position. A source stated that the Saudi Arabian individual in the previous statement was an al Farouq Camp Commander and a leader at Tora Bora, Afghanistan.