An individual named Shadi Abdalla has been described as an associate of
Abu Musab al Zarqawi
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi ( ar, أَبُو مُصْعَبٍ ٱلزَّرْقَاوِيُّ, ', ''Father of Musab, from Zarqa''; ; October 30, 1966 – June 7, 2006), born Ahmad Fadeel al-Nazal al-Khalayleh (, '), was a Jordanian jihadist who ran a ...
, the leader of
al Qaeda in Iraq, and as having knowledge of some of
al Qaeda's most important
Afghan training camps
An Afghan training camp is a camp or facility used for militant training located in the central Asian country of Afghanistan. At the time of the September 11, 2001 attacks, Indian intelligence officials estimated that there were over 120 traini ...
.
[Bergen, Peter. "The Osama bin Laden I Know", 2006. p. 262][
]Peter Bergen
Peter Bergen (born December 11, 1962) is an American journalist, author, and producer who serves as CNN's national security analyst and as New America's vice president. He produced the first television interview with Osama bin Laden in 1997, w ...
quoted Shadi Abdalla's description of the al Farouq training camp The Al Farouq training camp, also called ''Jihad Wel al-Farouq'', was a Taliban and Al-Qaeda training camp near Kandahar, Afghanistan. Camp attendees received small-arms training, map-reading, orientation, explosives training, and other training. N ...
in his book ''The Osama bin Laden I Know
Peter Bergen's ''The Osama bin Laden I Know'' () is a book published in 2006. It is a comprehensive collection of personal accounts by people who have met Osama bin Laden or worked with him at various stages of his terrorist career.
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On September 24, 2003, the United States Treasury
The Department of the Treasury (USDT) is the national treasury and finance department of the federal government of the United States, where it serves as an executive department. The department oversees the Bureau of Engraving and Printing and ...
designated Shadi Abdalla and the same four other men who had been captured in Germany as ''"members of Zarqawi’s German-based terrorist cell Al Tawhid"''.[
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The other four men asserted to be members of the German cell were:
Mohamed Abu Dhess,
Aschraf Al-Dagma,
Ismail Shalabi and
Djamel Moustfa.
Shadi Abdellah was listed by the United Nations 1267 Committee on its list of individuals whose assets should be seized.[
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He was removed from the list on December 23, 2004, after agreeing to testify against other individuals suspected of being members of al Qaeda, pleading guilty to lesser charges, whereupon he was enrolled in Germany's witness protection program
Witness protection is security provided to a threatened person providing testimonial evidence to the justice system, including defendants and other clients, before, during, and after a trial, usually by police. While a witness may only require p ...
. Removal from the list was required for him to receive German assistance while in the witness protection program.
The ''BBC News
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'' reported that Shadi Abdellah acknowledged serving as one of Osama bin Laden's bodyguard United States, American officials have reported that the late al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden had numerous bodyguards. They reported that the detainees held in the Guantanamo Bay detention camp included at least 30 of Bin Laden's bodyguards.
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