- Nazim Jihad
The name given to a housing compound outside
Jalalabad, Afghanistan , Nazim Jihad is the former home ofOsama bin Laden and approximately 250 followers.cite book |title= Guantanamo's Child |last=Shephard |first=Michelle |authorlink=Michelle Shephard |year= 2008 |publisher=John Wiley & Sons |isbn= |pages= ]With
internal plumbing ,Forney, Matthew.TIME , " [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1001487,00.html A Trip Inside bin Laden's Caves] ", December 24, 2001] the compound was formally located inHadda . [CNN , [http://www.cnn.com/services/presents.opk/bin.laden/images.htm Images and Video Clips] , 2006]In 1997, the Canadian
NGO leaderAhmed Khadr began visiting Bin Laden in "Nazim Jihad", and the following year his family moved into the compound, which his children nicknamed "Star Wars ", 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.Hughes, Gregory T.FBI , "", 2005] In mid-1997, theNorthern Alliance threatened to overrunJalalabad , causing Bin Laden to abandon Nazim Jihad and move his operations toKandahar in the south, although the Khadrs were not invited to follow him and consequently moved toKabul .Testimony ofAbdurahman Khadr as a witness in the trial against Charkaoui, July 13, 2004]Hadda was also the site of a farming compound owned by
Yunis Khalis , which bin Laden visited. [Brassey's , Through Our Enemies' Eyes, 2002]References
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