Afghanistan - The Camps

Afghanistan has always had training camps for mujahedin. We know this because the United States paid for them to be built and expanded back in the '80s. So it wasn't that hard to cruise missile them on August 20, 1998, and it wasn't that hard to rebuild them in Khost and outside Jalalabad, Kabul and Kunduz by December, five months later. Osama, the son of a Saudi construction maven from Yemen, just can't stop building. He has about 3,000 people on the payroll in Afghanistan and is building everything from mosques to government buildings. Tomahawk missiles also hit Jamiatul Mujahideen and Harkatul Ansar camps, both run by Pakistanis, almost 21 kilometers away from Osama's exclusively Arab camp in Khost. The Salman Farsi camp and the Badar 1 and Badar 2 are for the training of Arabs, while the Pakistani-run camps of Pakistani-based Harkatul Mujahideen (former Harakatul Ansar or HUA) and Harkatul Jihad Al-Islami. Osama is one of the benefactors of the Harkatul Mujahideen who teach volunteers from as far away as North America, the Phillipines, Bosnia and Algeria to fight low-intensity terrorist wars.

Missiles also hit the ten-year-old Jamiatul Mujahideen camp commanded by the Kashmiri Mufti Bashir. This camp was for training up to 250 volunteers from Kashmir and Pakistan to fight in Kashmir, a war the Pakistani ISI funds and provides training for.