Derunta Training Camp - Alleged Attendees

Attended in 1997 with four other members of Hamas

• Alleged by DoD officials to have attended in 1998.
• Leaked files reveal that the DoD had secretly concluded Begg had been an instructor at Derunta.

During his Administrative Review Board Saed Khatem Al Malki faced the allegations a:

• The detainee may have been involved in a November 1995 bomb attack on the Egyptian Embassy in Islamabad. He then escaped to the Shamshad and Deruntah camps in Afghanistan the day of the attack.
• The Deruntah training camp has a poisons course that lasts approximately two weeks and teaches students how to poison food and drinks.

During both his Combatant Status Review Tribunal and Administrative Review Board Abdul Bin Mohammed Bin Abess Ourgy faced the allegations:

• The Detainee is a Tunisian national who traveled to Italy then to Afghanistan where he received training at the Derunta military camp.
• Derunta is an Al-Qaida military training camp.
• The Detainee spent 28 days at the camp where he participated in Kalashnikov rifle, pistol, RPG, and grenade training.

• Hisham Sliti faced the allegation: "The detainee received training on the use of light arms at the Khaldan Camp near the Khowst Province, and the Derunta Camp in Jalalabad".

• Abdul Haddi Bin Hadiddi faced the allegation: "The detainee reportedly received military training on the use of light arms in the Derunta Camp in Jalalabad, Afghanistan."

• Riyad Bil Mohammed Tahir Nasseri faced the following allegations during his Administrative Review Board:
  • The detainee received military training at the Derunta camp in Jalalabad, Afghanistan and Khaldan camp near Khowst, Afghanistan.
  • The detainee received training on light arms while at the camps.
  • Derunta was one of Usama bin Laden's most important bases in Afghanistan. The camp provided training in the use of explosives and toxic chemical usage. Derunta also contained several secondary bases belonging to Usama bin Laden.

• Sada Jan was asked about the Derunta camp, during his Combatant Status Review Tribunal, even though it was not listed in the allegations on his Summary of Evidence memo.