Khalid ibn al-Walid training camp
Afghan military training camp
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The Khalid Bin Whalid training camp was an Afghan training camp providing military training in the 1990s.[1][2] Muslim convert Aukai Collins described his stay in the camp in 1993. Collins said he befriended Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh there. Sheikh was later convicted of a role in the kidnapping and murder of Daniel Pearl. Collins, on the other hand, attended the camp to prepare himself for aiding militant Chechen nationalists.[2] He claimed that some of the camp's graduates, like him, attacked only legitimate military targets.
The Global Security reported that Jamal al-Fadl attended the camp in 1998, when it was run by Maktab al-Khidamat.[3] They placed the camp in Khost Province, near Paktia Province.
In 1998, the camp was the target of a retaliatory attack by the United States, in response to the 1998 United States embassy bombings.[2]