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Alabamastan? Military Training Camp for Islamists in Alabama Immediately Before 9/11

Andrew Green - 5/28/2007

London has become known as Londonistan in intelligence and anti-Islamist circles. Recently, however, we came across an archive of an Islamist web site with known links to al-Qaida, advertising "The Ultimate Jihad Challenge", a two-week fire arms course where Muslims would be taught "practical" skills and "class theory is kept to a minimum." This is a British organization. But rather than training their "forces" in the United Kingdom, they organized a military camp in Marion, Alabama.

Among the people trained at the camp were bodyguards for Abu Hamza, a British terrorist. Hamza is associated with the Islamic Army of Aden, a Yemeni terrorist group that claimed responsibility for the USS Cole bombing in October of 2000. The FBI believes that Hamza is an al-Qaeda recruiter. He has met in London with Zacarias Moussaoui.

The following is what appeared on the Sakina Security Services web site (capitals in the original):