al-Farouq

Evidence for the migration of al-Qaeda members to Iraq from Afghanistan can be found in the stories of Hassan Gul, an al-Qaeda courier from Pakistan who was arrested while entering northern Iraq in January 2004, and in the case of Omar al-Farouq, a high-ranking al-Qaeda official who escaped from American custody at Bagram Air Base outside of Kabul in 2005 and was killed in Iraq a year later.

The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011

Syamsuddin was trained in bomb-making by alleged al-Qaida terrorist Omar al-Farouq during Muslim-Christian conflict in Ambon between 1999 and 2002.

Militants teach jihad in Indonesian prisons 2011

Evidence for the migration of al-Qaeda members to Iraq from Afghanistan can be found in the stories of Hassan Gul, an al-Qaeda courier from Pakistan who was arrested while entering northern Iraq in January 2004, and in the case of Omar al-Farouq, a high-ranking al-Qaeda official who escaped from American custody at Bagram Air Base outside of Kabul in 2005 and was killed in Iraq a year later.

The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011

Evidence for the migration of al-Qaeda members to Iraq from Afghanistan can be found in the stories of Hassan Gul, an al-Qaeda courier from Pakistan who was arrested while entering northern Iraq in January 2004, and in the case of Omar al-Farouq, a high-ranking al-Qaeda official who escaped from American custody at Bagram Air Base outside of Kabul in 2005 and was killed in Iraq a year later.

The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011

Evidence for the migration of al-Qaeda members to Iraq from Afghanistan can be found in the stories of Hassan Gul, an al-Qaeda courier from Pakistan who was arrested while entering northern Iraq in January 2004, and in the case of Omar al-Farouq, a high-ranking al-Qaeda official who escaped from American custody at Bagram Air Base outside of Kabul in 2005 and was killed in Iraq a year later.

The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011

Syamsuddin was trained in bomb-making by alleged al-Qaida terrorist Omar al-Farouq during Muslim-Christian conflict in Ambon between 1999 and 2002.

Militants teach jihad in Indonesian prisons 2011

Al-Marwalah admitted traveling to Afghanistan in September 2000 and training at al-Farouq and another camp, but said that he then returned to Yemen to see his family, and especially his father, who was ill.

Andy Worthington: "Model Prisoner" at Guantanamo, Tortured in the "Dark Prison," Loses Habeas Corpus Petition 2009

He said that he then returned to Afghanistan in August 2001 and attended al-Farouq again, but refuted an allegation that he had participated in military operations against the U. S.-led coalition, and said that he had fled to Pakistan after the U. S.-led invasion began.

Andy Worthington: "Model Prisoner" at Guantanamo, Tortured in the "Dark Prison," Loses Habeas Corpus Petition 2009

A greater degree of commitment was hinted at in the case of Ayoub Ali Saleh, who reportedly traveled to Afghanistan to join the jihad in 2000, and trained extensively at al-Farouq, but Bashir al-Marwalah's story is probably the most revealing.

Andy Worthington: "Model Prisoner" at Guantanamo, Tortured in the "Dark Prison," Loses Habeas Corpus Petition 2009

As al-Madhwani explained at his Administrative Review Board, he arrived in Afghanistan in August 2001, when he was 21 years old, at the urging of recruiters in his homeland, and trained briefly at al-Farouq (a training camp associated with Osama bin Laden in the years before the 9/11 attacks) until it closed immediately after the attacks.

Andy Worthington: "Model Prisoner" at Guantanamo, Tortured in the "Dark Prison," Loses Habeas Corpus Petition 2009