Training Camp Director
Al-Libi led the Al Khaldan training camp in Afghanistan, the facility where Zacarias Moussaoui and Ahmed Ressam trained. An associate of Abu Zubaydah, al-Libi was one of those whose assets were frozen by order of the September 26, 2002 list of terrorists released by the U.S. government following the September 11 attacks.
He was captured by Pakistani officials in November 2001, as he attempted to flee Afghanistan following the collapse of the Taliban precipitating the 2001 U.S. invasion of Afghanistan.
United States Department of Defense spokesmen used to routinely described the Khaldan training camp as an "al Qaeda training camp", and used to routinely describe Al-Libi and Abu Zubaydah as senior members of Al Qaeda. However, during their testimony at their Combatant Status Review Tribunals, several Guantanamo captives, including Abu Zubaydah, described the Khaldan camp as being run by a rival jihadist organization – one that did not support attacking civilians.
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