The Khalden training camp (also transliterated as khaldan) was a military training camp in Afghanistan

Afghanistan

Afghanistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located in the centre of Asia, forming South Asia, Central Asia and the Middle East. With a population of about 29 million, it has an area of , making it the 42nd most populous and 41st largest nation in the world...

. According to the documentary Son of al Qaeda

Son of al Qaeda

Son of al Qaeda is a documentary about Abdurahman Khadr, a young Canadian whose father was a senior associate of Osama bin Laden, produced by Terence McKenna, an independent Canadian producer....

 there were hundreds of military training camps in Afghanistan which were tied to al Qaeda. Having attended one of these camps has triggered suspicion on many of the detainees in the War on Terror

War on Terror

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The Khalden training camp was led by Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi

Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi

Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi was a Libyan paramilitary trainer for Al-Qaeda. After being captured and interrogated by the American and Egyptian forces, the information he gave under torture by Egyptian authorities was cited by the George W. Bush Administration in the months preceding the 2003 invasion of...

, who was captured in late 2001.

Ahmed Ressam

Ahmed Ressam

Ahmed Ressam is an Algerian al-Qaeda member who lived in Montreal, Canada.He was convicted of attempting to bomb the Los Angeles International Airport on New Year's Eve 1999, as part of the foiled 2000 millennium attack plots...

, the Millennium Bomber, said he attended the camp using the alias "Nabil", beginning in April 1998 for five to six months. He said Khalden Camp then generally hosted 50–100 trainees at any time, and he trained there in light weapons, handgun

Handgun

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s, small machine guns, rocket-propelled grenade launchers (RPGs), explosives (including TNT, C4

C-4 (explosive)

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 plastic explosive

Plastic explosive

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s, and black plastic explosives), poisons (including cyanide

Cyanide

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), poison gas, sabotage, target selection, urban warfare

Urban warfare

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, tactics (including assassinations), and security. Trainees were from Jordan, Algeria, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Chechnya, Turkey, Sweden, Germany, and France. During the time he was there, he met Zacarias Moussaoui

Zacarias Moussaoui

Zacarias Moussaoui is a French citizen who was convicted of conspiring to kill citizens of the US as part of the September 11 attacks...

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Individuals alleged to have attended the Khalden training camp

Abdullah Khadr Abdullah Khadr Abdullah Ahmed Khadr is the oldest son of Ahmed Khadr and brother of Omar Khadr who has been charged with war crimes before the Guantanamo military commission....	Says he only attended two weeks, when he was 13 years old
Abdurahman Khadr Abdurahman Khadr Abdurahman Khadr is the third child of the Egyptian Canadian Khadr family, and was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba, after being detained in Afghanistan under suspicion of connections to Al-Qaeda...	Attended when he was 11 years old, says there was "a lot of mental training".
Ahmed Ajaj Ahmed Ajaj Ahmed Mohammad Ajaj was convicted of participating in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. He is currently serving a 115-year sentence in the Marion Penitentiary in Illinois for his role in the bombing.-Early Life:...	participated in 1993 World Trade Center bombing 1993 World Trade Center bombing The 1993 World Trade Center bombing occurred on February 26, 1993, when a truck bomb was detonated below the North Tower of the World Trade Center in New York City. The 1,336 lb urea nitrate–hydrogen gas enhanced device was intended to knock the North Tower into the South Tower , bringing...
Ahmed Ressam Ahmed Ressam Ahmed Ressam is an Algerian al-Qaeda member who lived in Montreal, Canada.He was convicted of attempting to bomb the Los Angeles International Airport on New Year's Eve 1999, as part of the foiled 2000 millennium attack plots...	LAX "millennium bomber 2000 millennium attack plots The Year 2000 attack plots were terrorist attacks planned to occur on or near January 1, 2000: the bombing of four sites in Jordan, the bombing of Los Angeles International Airport , and the bombing of the USS The Sullivans. The first two plots were foiled by law enforcement agencies; the third was... ". Admitted attending the camp beginning in April 1998 for five to six months, and says that he met Zacarias Moussaoui there.
Feroz Abbasi Feroz Abbasi Feroz Abbasi is one of nine British men who were held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba. He was released from detention on 25 January 2005 along with Moazzam Begg, Martin Mubanga and Richard Belmar, the other five having previously been...	released in the UK
Gouled Hassan Dourad Gouled Hassan Dourad Gouled Hassan Dourad , born 1974, is a citizen of Somalia who is currently held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantánamo Bay detainment camps in Cuba....	currently detained in the Guantánamo Bay detainment camp Guantanamo Bay detainment camp The Guantanamo Bay detention camp is a detainment and interrogation facility of the United States located within Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba. The facility was established in 2002 by the Bush Administration to hold detainees from the war in Afghanistan and later Iraq...
Ibrahim Elgabrowny	participated in 1993 World Trade Center bombing 1993 World Trade Center bombing The 1993 World Trade Center bombing occurred on February 26, 1993, when a truck bomb was detonated below the North Tower of the World Trade Center in New York City. The 1,336 lb urea nitrate–hydrogen gas enhanced device was intended to knock the North Tower into the South Tower , bringing...
Mahmoud Abouhalima	participated in 1993 World Trade Center bombing
Majed Moqed Majed Moqed A former law student, Majed Mashaan Ghanem Moqed was one of five hijackers of American Airlines Flight 77 as part of the September 11 attacks....	911 hijacker
Mohamed Rashid al-Owhali	attended in 1997 participated in the bombings of US embassies in Africa
Mohamed Atta Mohamed Atta Mohamed Mohamed el-Amir Awad el-Sayed Atta was one of the masterminds and the ringleader of the September 11 attacks who served as the hijacker-pilot of American Airlines Flight 11, crashing the plane into the North Tower of the World Trade Center as part of the coordinated attacks.Born in 1968...	911 hijacker
Mohamed Moumou Mohamed Moumou Mohamed Moumou was a Moroccan-born Swedish national who was the No. 2 leader of al-Qaida in Iraq and the senior leader in Northern Iraq...	Swedish citizen, described as Abu Musab al-Zarqawi Abu Musab al-Zarqawi Abu Musab al-Zarqawi ; October 30, 1966 – June 7, 2006), born Ahmad Fadeel al-Nazal al-Khalayleh was a Jordanian militant Islamist who ran a paramilitary training camp in Afghanistan... 's representative in Europe for issues related to chemical and biological weapons
Mushabib al-Hamlan Mushabib al-Hamlan An original candidate in the September 11 attacks, Mushabib al-Hamlan became involved with militancy at secondary-school in December 1999, where he attended gatherings to watch videos about the glory of Jihad and detailing the atrocities of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and the Yugoslav wars...	Friend of the 911 hijackers. Trained with 911 hijackers.
Omar al-Faruq Omar al-Faruq Omar al-Faruq was a Kuwaiti of Iraqi descent, and a senior al-Qaeda member. He was a liaison between al-Qaeda and Islamic terrorists in the Far East, particularly Jemaah Islamiyah. He was captured in Bogor, Indonesia in 2002 by an Indonesian security agent who handed him over to the United States...	trained in the early 1990s a southeast Asian lieutenant
Rafiq Bin Bashir Bin Jalud Al Hami Rafiq Bin Bashir Bin Jalud Al Hami The following primary factors favor release or transfer-Second annual Administrative Review Board hearing in 2006:A Summary of Evidence memo was prepared for his second annual Administrative Review Board on 27 January 2006....
Ramzi Yousef Ramzi Yousef Ramzi Yousef was one of the main perpetrators of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and a co-conspirator in the Bojinka plot. In 1995, he was arrested at a guest house in Islamabad, by the Pakistani Inter-Services Intelligence and United States Diplomatic Security Service, then extradited to the...	participated in 1993 World Trade Center bombing
Richard Reid Richard Reid Richard Reid may refer to:*Richard Reid , British man convicted of terrorism*Richard Reid , New Zealand cricketer*Richard Gavin Reid , Canadian politician...	shoe bomber
Saajid Badat Saajid Badat Saajid Muhammad Badat is a British student, serving a 13-year prison term for planning to blow up an aircraft with a bomb hidden in his shoe...	tried to be a shoe bomber
Satam al-Suqami Satam al-Suqami A law student, Satam Muhammed Abdel Rahman al-Suqami was one of five hijackers of American Airlines Flight 11 as part of the September 11 attacks....	911 hijacker
Zacarias Moussaoui Zacarias Moussaoui Zacarias Moussaoui is a French citizen who was convicted of conspiring to kill citizens of the US as part of the September 11 attacks...	one of the "20th hijacker 20th hijacker 20th hijacker is a numeric metaphor concerning a possible additional terrorist in the September 11, 2001, attacks who was not able to participate.... s"
Mohammed Abd Al Al Qadir Mohammed Abd Al Al Qadir Mohammed Abd Al Al Qadir is a citizen of Algeria who was held as an enemy combatant in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba.Joint Task Force Guantanamo counter-terrorism analysts report he was born on May 12, 1976,Taot, Algeria....	Accused in his Administrative Review Board Administrative Review Board The Administrative Review Board is a United States military body that conducts an annual review of the suspects held by the United States in Camp Delta in the United States Navy base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.... . Al Qadir denies ties to al Qaeda, and denies attending the training camp.
Khalid Sulaymanjaydh Al Habayshi	Accused in his Combatant Status Review Tribunal Combatant Status Review Tribunal The Combatant Status Review Tribunals were a set of tribunals for confirming whether detainees held by the United States at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp had been correctly designated as "enemy combatants". The CSRTs were established July 7, 2004 by order of U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense... .
Noor Uthman Muhammaed Noor Uthman Muhammaed Noor Uthman Muhammed is a citizen of Sudan confined in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camp, in Cuba where he is serving a sentence for terrorism convictions before the Guantanamo military commission...	One of the allegations again Noor Uthman Muhammaed was: "The Detainee was trained in mountain warfare and weapons training on the Kalishnikov , PK machine gun PK machine gun The PK is a 7.62 mm general-purpose machine gun designed in the Soviet Union and currently in production in Russia. The PK machine gun was introduced in the 1960s and replaced the SGM and RPD machine guns in Soviet service... , 75 and 82 mm heavy artillery, SPG-9 SPG-9 The SPG-9 Kopye is a Russian tripod-mounted man-portable, 73 millimetre calibre recoilless gun developed by the Soviet Union. It fires fin-stabilised, rocket-assisted HE and HEAT projectiles similar to those fired by the 73 mm 2A28 Grom low pressure gun of the BMP-1 vehicle...  anti-tank weapon, 82 mm mortar, Zukair anti-aircraft weapon, and the RPG launcher at Khalden Camp."
Riyad Bil Mohammed Tahir Nasseri Riyad Bil Mohammed Tahir Nasseri -Testimony:There is no record that Riyad Bin Mohammed Tahir Nasseriparticipated in his Combatant Status Review Tribunal.-Administrative Review Board hearings:...	One of the allegations against Riyad Bil Mohammed Tahir Nasseri was: "The detainee received military training at the Derunta camp  in Jalalabad Jalalabad Jalalabad , formerly called Adinapour, as documented by the 7th century Hsüan-tsang, is a city in eastern Afghanistan. Located at the junction of the Kabul River and Kunar River near the Laghman valley, Jalalabad is the capital of Nangarhar province. It is linked by approximately of highway with... , Afghanistan and Khaldan camp  near Khowst  Afghanistan."
Abdullah Ali Al Utaybi Abdullah Ali Al Utaybi Summary of Evidence memos were drafted for Al Utaybi's annual reviews in 2005 and 2006.The 2005 memo was two pages long and listed 18 factors favoring continued detention and 5 factors favoring release or transfer.The 2006 memo was three pages long....	One of the allegations against Abdullah Ali Al Utaybi was: "Detainee may have trained at the al Qaida Khaldan Camp ."
Ridah Bin Saleh Al Yazidi Ridah Bin Saleh Al Yazidi Ridah Bin Saleh Al Yazidi is a citizen of Tunisia currently held in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba.The Department of Defense reports that he was born on January 24, 1965, in Unfidel, Tunisia and assigned him the Internment Serial Number 38.As of August 16, 2011, Ridah...	One of the factors favoring Ridah Bin Saleh Al Yazidi's continued detention was: "The detainee said he was provided with a letter of introduction for admission to the Khalden Training Camp. The detainee traveled to Afghanistan using a forged passport. The detainee traveled to Khost Khost Khost or Khowst is a city in eastern Afghanistan. It is the capital of Khost province, which is a mountainous region near Afghanistan's border with Pakistan... , Afghanistan via Switzerland, Islamabad, Pakistan and Jalalabad, Afghanistan."
Hisham Sliti Hisham Sliti Hisham Sliti, a Tunisian, is currently being held as an enemy combatant in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba.The list of the names of all the Guantanamo detainees states that his date of birth was February 12, 1966, in Hamam Lif, TunisiaAs of Aug...	One of the allegations against Hisham Sliti was: "The detainee received training on the use of light arms at the Khaldan Camp near the Khowst  Province , and the Derunta Camp in Jalalabad Jalalabad Jalalabad , formerly called Adinapour, as documented by the 7th century Hsüan-tsang, is a city in eastern Afghanistan. Located at the junction of the Kabul River and Kunar River near the Laghman valley, Jalalabad is the capital of Nangarhar province. It is linked by approximately of highway with... ."
Ahmed Hassan Jamil Suleyman Ahmed Hassan Jamil Suleyman Ahmed Hassan Jamil Suleyman is a citizen of Jordan who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba.His Guantanamo Internment Serial Number was 662....	One of the factors favoring Ahmed Hassan Jamil Suleyman's continued detention was: "The detainee was at Khalden Camp between May 1994 and 1999."
Riyad Bil Mohammed Tahir Nasseri Riyad Bil Mohammed Tahir Nasseri -Testimony:There is no record that Riyad Bin Mohammed Tahir Nasseriparticipated in his Combatant Status Review Tribunal.-Administrative Review Board hearings:...	One of the allegations against Riyad Bil Mohamme Tahir Nasseri was: "The detainee received military training at the Derunta camp  in Jalalabad Jalalabad Jalalabad , formerly called Adinapour, as documented by the 7th century Hsüan-tsang, is a city in eastern Afghanistan. Located at the junction of the Kabul River and Kunar River near the Laghman valley, Jalalabad is the capital of Nangarhar province. It is linked by approximately of highway with... , Afghanistan and Khaldan camp  near Khowst  Afghanistan."
Abdul Bin Mohammed Bin Abess Ourgy Abdul Bin Mohammed Bin Abess Ourgy Abdul Bin Mohammed Bin Abess Ourgy is a citizen of Tunisia, currently held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba.The Department of Defense reports that Ourgy was born on July 25, 1965, in Tunis, Tunisia....	One of the factors considered for his continued detention was: "Detainee denies that he trained at the Khalden training camp."
Umar Abdullah Al Kunduzi Umar Abdullah Al Kunduzi Umar Abdullah Al Kunduzi is a citizen of Afghanistan, who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba....	One of the factors favoring the continued detention of Umar Abdullah Al Kunduzi was: "The detainee and others were led out of the Tora Bora region by the leader of the Khalden training camp, who has been linked to Usama Bin Laden, Abu Zubaydah Abu Zubaydah Abu Zubaydah is a Saudi Arabian citizen, sentenced to death in Jordan and currently held in U.S. custody in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.Not neutral: Arrested in Pakistan in March 2002, he has been in US custody for more than eight years, four-and-a-half of them spent incommunicado in solitary confinement...  and several other major al Qaida leaders."
Omar Nasiri Omar Nasiri Omar Nasiri is the pseudonym of a Moroccan spy who infiltrated al-Qaeda, attending training camps in Afghanistan and passing information to the UK and French intelligence services...	Omar Nasiri is the pen-name of the author of: ISBN 978-1-85065-861-0 "Inside the Global Jihad: How I Infiltrated Al Qaeda and Was Abandoned by Western Intelligence" ISBN 978-0-465-02388-2 "Inside the Jihad: My Life with al Qaeda, a Spy's story Inside the Jihad: My Life with al Qaeda, a Spy's story Inside the Jihad: My Life with al Qaeda, a Spy's story is a book published by Basic Books, written by a Moroccan who has adopted the pen-name Omar Nasiri.... "
Idris Ahmed Abdu Qader Idris Idris Ahmed Abdu Qader Idris Idris Ahmed Abdu Qader Idris is a citizen of Yemen, held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba.Joint Task Force Guantanamo estimate he was born in 1979, in Rada, Yemen....	One of the allegations against Idris Ahmed Abdu Qader Idris was: "The detainee ###############, voluntarily traveled from Italy to Afghanistan Afghanistan Afghanistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located in the centre of Asia, forming South Asia, Central Asia and the Middle East. With a population of about 29 million, it has an area of , making it the 42nd most populous and 41st largest nation in the world...  in May 1999 to attend the Khaldan training camp."
Abdul Rahman Mohamed Saleh Naser Abdul Rahman Mohamed Saleh Naser Abdul Rahman Mohamed Saleh Naser is a citizen of Yemen currently held in the Guantanamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba.His Guantanamo Internment Serial Number is 115.American intelligence analysts estimates that he was born in 1980, in Ma'rib, Yemen....	Two of the factors favoring Abdul Rahman Mohamed Saleh Naser's continued detention were: "The detainee's immediate commander was Turab al Najdi." "Abu Turab Al Najdi attended the Khaldan training camp in Afghanistan, and worked with the Abu Sayyaf Group in the Philippines Philippines The Philippines , officially known as the Republic of the Philippines , is a country in Southeast Asia in the western Pacific Ocean. To its north across the Luzon Strait lies Taiwan. West across the South China Sea sits Vietnam... ."
Lufti Bin Ali Lufti Bin Ali Lotfi Bin Ali is a Tunisian currently held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba.When the Department of Defense released a full list of all the detainees from Guantanamo it published an estimate that he was born in 1965, in Tunis, Tunisia.As of...	One of the factors favoring Lufti Bin Ali's continued detention was: "The detainee was identified by a senior al Qaida lieutenant as having studied at the Khaldan camp in 1998 or 1999."
Faiz Mohammed Ahmed Al Kandari Faiz Mohammed Ahmed Al Kandari Fayiz Mohammed Ahmed Al Kandari is a Kuwaiti citizen who has been detained in Guantanamo Bay since 2002. He has been charged with war crimes.The US Department of Defense reports he was born on June 3, 1975 in Kuwait City....	One of the allegations against Faiz Mohammed Ahmed Al Kandari was: "The detainee later traveled into Afghanistan and received weapons training at the Khaldan training camp. Usama Bin Laden personally provided religious instruction and trainee at this camp." One of the factors favoring Faiz Mohammed Ahmed Al Kandari's continued detention was: "The detainee traveled to the Khalden training camp in Afghanistan where he received weapons training on the Kalashnikov AK-47 The AK-47 is a selective-fire, gas-operated 7.62×39mm assault rifle, first developed in the Soviet Union by Mikhail Kalashnikov. It is officially known as Avtomat Kalashnikova . It is also known as a Kalashnikov, an "AK", or in Russian slang, Kalash.Design work on the AK-47 began in the last year... , Dusaka (AKA Docka), Grinov, BKC automatic rifles, and RPG’s, and anti-aircraft guns. Usama Bin Laden provided religious instruction and gave advice and encouragement to the Jihadists."
Adil Charkaoui Adil Charkaoui Adil Charkaoui is a Morocco-born permanent resident of Canada who was arrested by the Canadian government under a security certificate in May 2003....	Alleged to have attended the "Khaldun training camp" in 1998. Currently held in Canada, without charge, on a "Minister's Security Certificate".
Raouf Hannachi Raouf Hannachi Born in Tunisia, Raouf Hannachi is a Canadian citizen who served as the Muezzin at Assuna Mosque in Montreal, and was later detained by the United States government at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba...	Made the travel arrangements for Ahmed Ressam Ahmed Ressam Ahmed Ressam is an Algerian al-Qaeda member who lived in Montreal, Canada.He was convicted of attempting to bomb the Los Angeles International Airport on New Year's Eve 1999, as part of the foiled 2000 millennium attack plots... , the "millennium bomber", to receive training at the "Khaldun training camp". Alleged to have received military training in Afghanistan himself.