Kohtal
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Kohtal, is a geographic location near the border of Afghanistan
and Pakistan
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in Guantanamo were suspected of attending the Kohtal training camp.
Afghanistan
Afghanistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located in the centre of Asia, forming South Asia, Central Asia and the Middle East. With a population of about 29 million, it has an area of , making it the 42nd most populous and 41st largest nation in the world...
and Pakistan
Pakistan
Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...
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Role in the Opium trade
In his 2002 book, Holy War, Inc.: Inside the Secret World of Osama bin Laden, Peter L. Bergen describes Landi Khotal as a "one of the world's largest heroin-smuggling posts."Home to an Afghan training camp
Several captives held in extrajudicial detentionExtrajudicial detention
Arbitrary or extrajudicial detention is the detention of individuals by a state, without ever laying formal charges against them.Although it has a long history of legitimate use in wartime , detention without charge, sometimes in secret, has been one of the hallmarks of totalitarian states...
in Guantanamo were suspected of attending the Kohtal training camp.