ETIM training camp
ETIM training camp is a name that Joint Task Force Guantanamo counter-terrorism analysts applied to a place where two dozen ethnic Uyghurs held in Guantanamo are suspected of having received training.[1][2][3][4] JTF-GTMO analysts assert that the camp was run by a group they called the East Turkestan Islamic Movement.
The Uyghurs dispute that the compound was military training camp.[3] They state that there was only one weapon at the camp, an AK-47. Some of the captives acknowledge that another Uyghur gave them a few hours of training on the rifle. Others said they had never had any training.
The Asia Times asserted that Chinese security officials report that "1,000 Uyghur militants trained in al-Qaeda camps."[2]
References
[edit | edit source]- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Neil Arun (2007-01-11). "Guantanamo Uighurs' strange odyssey". BBC News. Archived from the original on 2007-01-23. Retrieved 2010-03-23.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1
Peter Lee (2009-03-06). "Taliban force a China switch". Asia Times. Archived from the original on 2009-03-09. Retrieved 2010-03-23.
Before 9/11, a special training camp for Uyghurs was reportedly operated at Tora Bora under al-Qaeda and Taliban auspices near the Pakistan border, and a safe house maintained in the Afghan provincial town of Jalalabad. According to one report, the Chinese claim 1,000 Uyghur militants trained in al-Qaeda camps.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Information paper: Uighur Detainee Population at JTF-GTMO" (PDF). United States Department of Defense. 2004-10-30. pp. 28–34. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2007-12-04. Retrieved 2007-12-19.
- ↑ Senator Jeff Sessions (2009-05-04). "Senator Continues To Seek Answers About The Administration's Reported Plan To Release Certain Guantanamo Bay Detainees In the United States" (PDF). United States Senate. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2022-06-01. Retrieved 2010-03-22.