The Darunta training camp(also transliterated as Derunta) was one of the most well-known of many military training camps that have been alleged to have been affiliated with al Qaeda. [1] [ irrelevant citation ]
The Darunta training camp(also transliterated as Derunta) was one of the most well-known of many military training camps that have been alleged to have been affiliated with al Qaeda. [1] [ irrelevant citation ]
CNN published a story in which they claimed to have acquired videotapes showing al Qaeda experiments poisoning dogs with chemical weapons, at Darunta. [2]
The camp is reported to have been near Jalalabad. According to The Guardian , it was 15 miles from Jalalabad, just north of the village of Darunta across the dam. [3] According to a paper by Hekmat Karzai, published by the Pentagon the camp was really a complex of four camps, eight miles from Jalalabad. [4] Karzai wrote that the four camps were:
| Abu Khabab camp |
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| Assadalah Abdul Rahman camp |
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| Hizbi Islami Camp |
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| Taliban camp |
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The CIA provided intelligence, pinpointing Osama bin Laden's presence, that enabled Northern Alliance allies to bombard him in at the Darunta camp in 1999. [5]
The documents from some Guantanamo captives, such as Abbas Habid Rumi Al Naely, state that the Khalden training camp was also located in Darunta. [6]
Some sources claim the director of the camp was Midhat Mursi. [7]
During his Administrative Review Board Abdul Bin Mohammed Bin Abess Ourgy acknowledged attending the Darunta camp, but he disputed that it was affiliated with al-Qaeda. [8] [9] He asserted that the Derunta camp was a non-al Qaeda camp, that dated back to the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan, that it was originally run by the Hezbi Islami, and that after his attendance there the Derunta camp was one of the many non-al Qaeda camps that the Taliban shut down at al Qaeda's request.
Other Guantanamo captives have reported that the similarly well-known Khalden training camp was not an al-Qaeda camp, and was shut down in 2000, at Osama bin Laden's request.
| Nabil Aukal [10] | Attended in 1997 with four other members of Hamas |
| Moazzam Begg | |
| Menad Benchellali [13] | Alleged to be a "chemical weapons" specialist |
| Abdul Haddi Bin Hadiddi [14] | The detainee reportedly received military training on the use of light arms in the Darunta Camp in Jalalabad, Afghanistan. |
| Riyad Bil Mohammed Tahir Nasseri [15] | Alleged to have attended both Khalden and Darunta. |
| Ahmed Ressam [16] | The "millennium bomber"; admitted that he trained how to manufacture advanced explosives and make electronic circuits for six weeks at the camp. [17] [18] |
| Hisham Sliti [19] | Alleged to have attended both the Khalden training camp and Derunta. |
| Saed Khatem Al Malki | During his Administrative Review Board Saed Khatem Al Malki faced the allegations [20] a:
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| Abdul Bin Mohammed Bin Abess Ourgy | During both his Combatant Status Review Tribunal and Administrative Review Board Abdul Bin Mohammed Bin Abess Ourgy faced the allegations: [8] [9]
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| Hisham Sliti |
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| Abdul Haddi Bin Hadiddi |
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| Riyad Bil Mohammed Tahir Nasseri |
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| Sada Jan |
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