Zarqawi training camp (Herat)

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For the ISIL camp for training boys, see Zarqawi cubs military camp. During the period prior to the American invasion of Afghanistan, prior to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi swearing allegiance to Osama bin Laden, he lead an indepent training camp in Herat, Afghanistan genereally known as the Zarqawi training camp.[1][2]

Vice President Dick Cheney and some other sources claim that al Zarqawi's camp trained recruits in the use of poison gas and germ warfare.[3][4]

References

  1. Harleen K Gambhir (2014-08-15). "Dabiq: The Strategic Messaging of the Islamic State". Institute for the Study of War. Archived from the original on 2014-08-19. https://web.archive.org/web/20140819085856/https://www.understandingwar.org/sites/default/files/Dabiq%20Backgrounder_Harleen%20Final.pdf. Retrieved 2014-08-21. "Zarqawi operated in territory distinct from bin Laden, overseeing a training camp in western Afghanistan, near Herat, while bin Laden remained in the east." 
  2. Jean-Charles Brisard, Damien Martinez (2005). Zarqawi: The New Face of Al-Quaeda. Polity (publishers). ISBN 9780745635712. http://books.google.ca/books?id=F6SNDMjJW4YC&pg=PA75&lpg=PA75&dq=Zarqawi+%22training+camp%22&source=bl&ots=CcBArjnso-&sig=pqtbFyb1losvBBfV0iPjcAR97RQ&hl=en&sa=X&ei=2VP2U5i_L8naoASs-4D4Aw&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=Zarqawi%20%22training%20camp%22&f=false. Retrieved 2014-08-21. 
  3. Don Van Natta Jr. (2004-10-10). "Who Is Abu Musab al-Zarqawi?". New York Times. Archived from the original on 2014-08-21. https://web.archive.org/web/20140821214423/http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/10/weekinreview/10vann.html?_r=0&oref=login&pagewanted=all&position=. "Mr. Cheney added that prior to Sept. 11, Mr. Zarqawi had operated a Qaeda training camp in western Afghanistan, near the Iran border." 
  4. "Abu Musab al-Zarqawi". Anti-Defamation League. Archived from the original on 2014-08-21. https://web.archive.org/web/20140821212611/http://archive.adl.org/terrorism/profiles/al_zarqawi.html#.U_ZkHKNNb2U. "After he was released from prison in 1999 under an amnesty from the Jordanian government, Zarqawi relocated to Peshawar, Pakistan, to live with his ill mother. While in Pakistan, he was named a suspect in a foiled terror attack against Christian sites in Jordan. This charge, coupled with the death of his mother, drove Zarqawi to return to Afghanistan and open a weapons training camp."