Najim Jihad
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Najim Jihad (نجم الجهاد) (also Nazim Jihad[1]) is the name given to a housing compound outside Jalalabad, Afghanistan, which is the former home of Osama bin Laden and approximately 250 followers.[1]
With internal plumbing,[2] the compound was formally located in Hadda.[3]
In 1997, the Canadian NGO leader Ahmed Khadr began visiting Bin Laden in Nazim Jihad, and the following year his family moved into the compound, which his children nicknamed "Star Wars",[1] while their father was away, but only stayed a short time before bin Laden moved to a new home and didn't invite the Khadrs to accompany him.[4] In mid-1997, the Northern Alliance threatened to overrun Jalalabad, causing Bin Laden to abandon Nazim Jihad and move his operations to Kandahar in the south, although the Khadrs were not invited to follow him and consequently moved to Kabul.[5]
In his Combatant Status Review Tribunal at Guantanamo Bay, Abu Bakr Alahdal was accused of having visited Najim Jihad in 2001 after the fall of Kabul.[6]
Hadda was also the site of a farming compound owned by Yunis Khalis, which bin Laden visited.[7]
[edit] References
- ^ a b c Shephard, Michelle (2008). Guantanamo's Child. John Wiley & Sons.
- ^ Forney, Matthew. TIME, "A Trip Inside bin Laden's Caves", December 24, 2001
- ^ CNN, Images and Video Clips, 2006
- ^ Hughes, Gregory T. FBI, "Affidavit of Gregory T. Hughes", 2005
- ^ Testimony of Abdurahman Khadr as a witness in the trial against Charkaoui, July 13, 2004
- ^ OARDEC (13 October 2004). "Summary of Evidence for Combatant Status Review Tribunal -- Alahdal, Abu Bakr Ibn Ali Muhammad". United States Department of Defense. pages 74-75. http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/detainees/csrt_arb/000101-000200.pdf#74. Retrieved on 2007-12-06.
- ^ Brassey's, Through Our Enemies' Eyes, 2002
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