Tarnak Farms refers to a former Afghan training camp

Afghan training camp

An Afghan training camp is a camp or facility used for militant training located in pre-2002 Afghanistan. At the time of the September 11, 2001 attacks, Indian intelligence officials estimated that there were over 120 training camps operating in Afghanistan and Pakistan, run by a variety of...

 near Kandahar

Kandahar

Kandahar is the second largest city in Afghanistan, with a population of about 512,200 as of 2011. It is the capital of Kandahar Province, located in the south of the country at about 1,005 m above sea level...

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The camp is very near the Kandahar airport.

The Al-Qaeda camp is alleged to have offered training constructing bombs, using poisons, urban warfare

Urban warfare

Urban warfare is combat conducted in urban areas such as towns and cities. Urban combat is very different from combat in the open at both the operational and tactical level...

, and assassination

Assassination

To carry out an assassination is "to murder by a sudden and/or secret attack, often for political reasons." Alternatively, assassination may be defined as "the act of deliberately killing someone, especially a public figure, usually for hire or for political reasons."An assassination may be...

. American

United States

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 counter-terrorism

Counter-terrorism

Counter-terrorism is the practices, tactics, techniques, and strategies that governments, militaries, police departments and corporations adopt to prevent or in response to terrorist threats and/or acts, both real and imputed.The tactic of terrorism is available to insurgents and governments...

 analysts assert that their sources claim all the camp's trainees had to attend Al Qaeda's Al Farouq camp first.
American

United States

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 counter-terrorism

Counter-terrorism

Counter-terrorism is the practices, tactics, techniques, and strategies that governments, militaries, police departments and corporations adopt to prevent or in response to terrorist threats and/or acts, both real and imputed.The tactic of terrorism is available to insurgents and governments...

 analysts assert that their sources claim that all trainees have to be prepared to serve as suicide bombers.

After the United States forces took over the airport they used the ruins for their own training exercises.

9-11 hijackers believed to have trained at Tarnak Farms

Mohamed Atta Mohamed Atta Mohamed Mohamed el-Amir Awad el-Sayed Atta was one of the masterminds and the ringleader of the September 11 attacks who served as the hijacker-pilot of American Airlines Flight 11, crashing the plane into the North Tower of the World Trade Center as part of the coordinated attacks.Born in 1968...	Recorded his will Will (law) A will or testament is a legal declaration by which a person, the testator, names one or more persons to manage his/her estate and provides for the transfer of his/her property at death...  at Tarnak Farms.
Ziad Jarrah Ziad Jarrah Ziad Samir Jarrah was one of the masterminds of the September 11 attacks who served as the hijacker-pilot of United Airlines Flight 93, crashing the plane into a field in a rural area near Shanksville—after a passenger uprising—as part of the coordinated attacks.After a wealthy and secular...	Recorded his will Will (law) A will or testament is a legal declaration by which a person, the testator, names one or more persons to manage his/her estate and provides for the transfer of his/her property at death...  at Tarnak Farms.

Suspects believed to have trained at Tarnak Farms

isn	name	notes
578	Abdul Aziz Adbullah Ali Al Suadi Abdul Aziz Adbullah Ali Al Suadi Abdul Aziz Abdullah Ali Al Suadi is a Yemeni citizen currently held in Guantánamo Bay detainment camps, in Cuba.The Department of Defense reports that Al Suadi was born on June 16, 1974, in Milhan, Yemen and assigned him the Internment Serial Number 578....	Yemen Yemen The Republic of Yemen , commonly known as Yemen , is a country located in the Middle East, occupying the southwestern to southern end of the Arabian Peninsula. It is bordered by Saudi Arabia to the north, the Red Sea to the west, and Oman to the east.... i electrician also trained at the Al Farouq training camp Al Farouq training camp The Al Farouq training camp, also known as "the airport camp", was an alleged Al-Qaeda training camp near Kandahar, Afghanistan. Camp attendees received small-arms training, map-reading, orientation, explosives training, and other training....
2	David Matthew Hicks	One of the limited number of Guantanamo captives to face charges before a Guantanamo military commission Guantanamo military commission The Guantanamo military commissions are military tribunals created by the Military Commissions Act of 2006 for prosecuting detainees held in the United States Guantanamo Bay detainment camps.- History :... . Alleged to have studied "urban tactics".
27	Uthman Abdul Rahim Mohammed Uthman Uthman Abdul Rahim Mohammed Uthman -Statement:Uthman did not participate in the hearing of his CSRT. But he dictated a statement that answered each allegation, point by point.Uthman denied all knowledge of the Tarnak Farms, and any participation in, or training for military operations...	Yemen Yemen The Republic of Yemen , commonly known as Yemen , is a country located in the Middle East, occupying the southwestern to southern end of the Arabian Peninsula. It is bordered by Saudi Arabia to the north, the Red Sea to the west, and Oman to the east.... i Denies participating in any training or hostilities
535	Tariq Mahmoud Ahmed Al Sawah Tariq Mahmoud Ahmed Al Sawah Tariq Mahmoud Ahmed Al Sawah is a citizen of Bosnia currently held in the United States's Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba.As of October 22, 2010, Tariq Mahmoud Ahmed al Sawah has been held at Guantanamo for eight years five months...
63	Mohammed al Qahtani	The Summary of Evidence memo prepared for his third annual review in 2008 asserted he had acknowledged spending two months training at Tarnak Farms: The detainee stated that after al Farouq training camp Al Farouq training camp The Al Farouq training camp, also known as "the airport camp", was an alleged Al-Qaeda training camp near Kandahar, Afghanistan. Camp attendees received small-arms training, map-reading, orientation, explosives training, and other training.... , he started advanced training at the Tarnak Farms Training Camp near Kandahar, Afghanistan. The detainee stated he spent approximately two months at Tarnak Farms Training Camp. The detainee practiced firing automatic rifles and pistols while walking, running, and from moving vehicles. The detainee also practiced urban warfare techniques, such as room clearing, kicking down doors, and jumping through windows. The detainee was also shown how to use explosives to blow open a locked door. The Tarnak Farms facility housed an al Qaida poison and explosive training laboratory and an advanced operational training camp. The Tarnak Farms camp was the most important al Qaida training camp in Afghanistan since it was where al Qaida operatives received advanced operational training including urban assault and other tactics.
258	Nayif Abdallah Ibrahim Ibrahim	The Summary of Evidence memo prepared for his third annual review asserted "a source" reported attending a "city tactics course" with Nayif.: The city tactics course length was five to six weeks long and primarily covered assassinations in urban areas. The training was held at the Tarnak Farms Camp, Kandahar, Afghanistan.
223	Abdul Rahman Abdul Abu Ghityh Sulayman	The Summary of Evidence memo prepared for his third annual review asserted "a source" reported attending a "city tactics course" with Nayif.: A source identified the detainee as someone who was at Tarnak Farms in January 2000.
74	Mesh Arsad al Rashid Mesh Arsad Al Rashid -Transcript:On March 3, 2006, the Department of Defense released 5,000 pages of documents about the detainees, in partial compliance with a court order from US District Court Justice Jed Rakoff....	The "factors favoring release or transfer" on his first and third annual reviews reported that he had denied knowing anything about Tarnak Farms.
757	Ahamed Abdel Aziz	His 2004 Combatant Status Review Tribunal Combatant Status Review Tribunal The Combatant Status Review Tribunals were a set of tribunals for confirming whether detainees held by the United States at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp had been correctly designated as "enemy combatants". The CSRTs were established July 7, 2004 by order of U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense...  and his third annual review in 2007 stated: "The detainee attended a speech by Usama bin Ladin at Tarnak Farms , near Kandahar, Afghanistan." His first annual review in 2005 stated that he attended the bin Laden speech at Tarnak Farms in November 1999.
235	Saeed Ahmed Mohammed Abdullah Sarem Jarabh	Allegations on his second annual review board stated that he attended one week of AK-47 AK-47 The AK-47 is a selective-fire, gas-operated 7.62×39mm assault rifle, first developed in the Soviet Union by Mikhail Kalashnikov. It is officially known as Avtomat Kalashnikova . It is also known as a Kalashnikov, an "AK", or in Russian slang, Kalash.Design work on the AK-47 began in the last year...  training at the Abu Abaida Training Camp. Those allegations stated: "The detainee trained with weapons for one week at the Abu Abaida Training Camp, also known as Tarnak Farms near the Kandahar Airport in Afghanistan." "The Tarnak Farms facility in Afghanistan housed an al Qaida poison and explosive training laboratory and an advanced operational training camp. The Tarnak Farms camp was considered the most important al Qaida training camp in Afghanistan since it was where al Qaida operatives received advanced operational training including urban assault and other tactics."

Home to bin Laden

In 1998, Bin Laden moved his followers from Nazim Jihad

Nazim Jihad

Najim Jihad is the name given to a housing compound outside Jalalabad, Afghanistan, which is the former home of Osama bin Laden and approximately 250 followers....

 to Tarnak Farms following Northern Alliance

Northern Alliance

The Afghan Northern Alliance is a military-political umbrella organization created by the Islamic State of Afghanistan in 1996.Northern Alliance may also refer to:*Northern Alliance , a Canadian white supremacist group...

 threats to attack Jalalabad.

It was widely reported that a visit to the Tarnak Farms in 2000 represented a rare opportunity to kill Osama Bin Laden

Osama bin Laden

Osama bin Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden was the founder of the militant Islamist organization Al-Qaeda, the jihadist organization responsible for the September 11 attacks on the United States and numerous other mass-casualty attacks against civilian and military targets...

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It was reported that Tarnak Farms was one of bin Laden's homes, but President Clinton was shown drone

Unmanned aerial vehicle

An unmanned aerial vehicle , also known as a unmanned aircraft system , remotely piloted aircraft or unmanned aircraft, is a machine which functions either by the remote control of a navigator or pilot or autonomously, that is, as a self-directing entity...

 footage that reportedly showed a child's swingset at the camp and was "haunted" at the prospect of bombing innocent families.

Intelligence Trove

In December 2001 American forces occupied the site. They claim they found a wealth of intelligence. The camp was taken over by the Americans to be used for their training.

April 17, 2002 friendly fire incident

On April 17, 2002, four Canadian soldiers of the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry

Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry

Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry is one of the three regular force infantry regiments of the Canadian Army. The regiment is composed of four battalions including a primary reserve battalion, for a total of 2,000 soldiers...

 were killed at this site while conducting a night time live-fire training exercise. Two passing American

United States

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 F-16s piloted by U.S. Air National Guard

Air National Guard

The Air National Guard , often referred to as the Air Guard, is the air force militia organized by each of the fifty U.S. states, the commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the territories of Guam and the U.S. Virgin Islands, and the District of Columbia of the United States. Established under Title 10 and...

 Majors Harry Schmidt and William Umbach had mistaken the machine gun

Machine gun

A machine gun is a fully automatic mounted or portable firearm, usually designed to fire rounds in quick succession from an ammunition belt or large-capacity magazine, typically at a rate of several hundred rounds per minute....

 and anti-tank weapons flashes of the exercise for enemy fire and dropped a 227-kilogram (500 lb) Mark 82 laser guided bomb

Mark 82 bomb

The Mark 82 is an unguided, low-drag general-purpose bomb, part of the U.S. Mark 80 series. The explosive filling is tritonal.-Development and deployment:...

 on the Canadian position, despite orders to await confirmation.

The bomb killed Canadian Forces

Canadian Forces

The Canadian Forces , officially the Canadian Armed Forces , are the unified armed forces of Canada, as constituted by the National Defence Act, which states: "The Canadian Forces are the armed forces of Her Majesty raised by Canada and consist of one Service called the Canadian Armed Forces."...

 Sgt Marc Leger, Cpl Ainsworth Dyer, Pte Richard Green

Richard Green (soldier)

Private Richard A. Green was a Canadian soldier killed in Afghanistan in what became known as the Tarnak Farm incident in which a U.S. plane dropped a laser-guided bomb on the 3rd Battalion of Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry...

 and Pte Nathan Lloyd Smith

Nathan Lloyd Smith

Private Nathan Lloyd Smith was a Canadian soldier who was killed in a friendly fire incident near Kandahar, Afghanistan ....

and wounded eight other CF soldiers.