Najim Jihad (نجم الجهاد; also ''Nazim Jihad'',
''Abu Mahajin'',
[ ''Najim al Jihad complex''][
]) is the name given to a housing compound outside Jalalabad, Afghanistan
Jalalabad (; Dari/ ps, جلالآباد, ) is the list of cities in Afghanistan, fifth-largest city of Afghanistan. It has a population of about 356,274, and serves as the capital of Nangarhar Province in the eastern part of the country, about ...
, which is the former home of Osama bin Laden
Osama bin Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden (10 March 1957 – 2 May 2011) was a Saudi-born extremist militant who founded al-Qaeda and served as its leader from 1988 until Killing of Osama bin Laden, his death in 2011. Ideologically a Pan-Islamism ...
and approximately 250 followers.[Forney, Matthew. ]TIME
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,
A Trip Inside bin Laden's Caves
, December 24, 2001 the compound was formally located in Hadda.
In 1997, the Canadian NGO
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leader Ahmed Khadr began visiting Bin Laden in ''Nazim Jihad'', and the following year his family moved into the compound, which his children nicknamed "Star Wars
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",[Hughes, Gregory T. ]FBI
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, " Affidavit of Gregory T. Hughes", 2005 In mid-1997, the Northern Alliance
The Northern Alliance, officially known as the United Islamic National Front for the Salvation of Afghanistan ( prs, جبهه متحد اسلامی ملی برای نجات افغانستان ''Jabha-yi Muttahid-i Islāmi-yi Millī barāyi Nijāt ...
threatened to overrun Jalalabad
Jalalabad (; Dari/ ps, جلالآباد, ) is the fifth-largest city of Afghanistan. It has a population of about 356,274, and serves as the capital of Nangarhar Province in the eastern part of the country, about from the capital Kabul. Jala ...
, causing Bin Laden to abandon Nazim Jihad and move his operations to Kandahar
Kandahar (; Kandahār, , Qandahār) is a List of cities in Afghanistan, city in Afghanistan, located in the south of the country on the Arghandab River, at an elevation of . It is Afghanistan's second largest city after Kabul, with a population ...
in the south, although the Khadrs were not invited to follow him and consequently moved to Kabul
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.[Testimony of Abdurahman Khadr as a witness in the trial against Charkaoui, July 13, 2004]
In their tribunal proceedings at Guantanamo Bay, Abu Bakr Alahdal and Abdul Rahman Khowlan were accused of having stayed at Najim Jihad during the Fall of Kabul.[
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Hadda was also the site of a farming compound owned by Yunis Khalis, which bin Laden visited.Brassey's Brassey's is variously the name of a publisher, an imprint, or a published series of volumes, all mostly associated with military topics, that was in existence in one form or another from 1886 to around 2005.
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, Through Our Enemies' Eyes, 2002
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Osama bin Laden
Buildings and structures in Nangarhar Province
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