Derunta Training Camp - Location

Location

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 Darūntah across the dam (coordinates: 34° 28' 44" North, 70° 21' 44" East). According to a paper by Hekmat Karzai, published by the Pentagon the camp was really a complex of four camps, eight miles from Jalalabad. Karzai wrote that the four camps were:

Abu Khabab camp
  • includes an explosives depot;
Assadalah Abdul Rahman camp
  • operated by Assadalah Abdul Rahman -- "the son of blind cleric Omar Abdel Rahman"
Hizbi Islami Camp
  • "operated by a group of Pakistani extremists fighting in Kashmir"
Taliban camp
  • "where religious militia were trained and indoctrinated to fight the Northern Alliance."

The CIA provided intelligence, pinpointing Osama bin Laden's presence, that enabled Northern Alliance allies to bombard him in at the Derunta camp in 1999.

The documents from some Guantanamo captives, such as Abbas Habid Rumi Al Naely, state that the Khalden training camp was also located in Darwanta.

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