An individual named Shadi Abdalla has been described as an associate of

Abu Musab al Zarqawi Abu Musab al-Zarqawi ( ar, أَبُو مُصْعَبٍ ٱلزَّرْقَاوِيُّ, ', ''Father of Musab, from Zarqa''; ; October 30, 1966 – June 7, 2006), born Ahmad Fadeel al-Nazal al-Khalayleh (, '), was a Jordanian jihadist who ran a t ...

, the leader of

al Qaeda in Iraq Al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI; ar, القاعدة في العراق, al-Qā'idah fī al-ʿIrāq) or Al-Qaeda in Mesopotamia ( ar, القاعدة في بلاد الرافدين, al-Qā'idah fī Bilād ar-Rāfidayn), officially known as ''Tanzim Qaidat a ...

, and as having knowledge of some of

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's most important

Afghan training camps An Afghan training camp is a camp or facility used for militant training located in the central Asian country of Afghanistan. At the time of the September 11, 2001 attacks, Indian intelligence officials estimated that there were over 120 trainin ...

.Bergen, Peter. "The Osama bin Laden I Know", 2006. p. 262

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quoted Shadi Abdalla's description of the

al Farouq training camp The Al Farouq training camp, also called ''Jihad Wel al-Farouq'', was a Taliban and Al-Qaeda training camp near Kandahar, Afghanistan. Camp attendees received small-arms training, map-reading, orientation, explosives training, and other training. N ...

in his book ''

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''. According to the '' Kashmir Telegraph'' Shadi Abdalla and four other men were arrested by German security officials on April 23, 2002. On September 24, 2003, the

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designated Shadi Abdalla and the same four other men who had been captured in Germany as ''"members of Zarqawi’s German-based terrorist cell Al Tawhid"''. The other four men asserted to be members of the German cell were: Mohamed Abu Dhess, Aschraf Al-Dagma, Ismail Shalabi and Djamel Moustfa. Shadi Abdellah was listed by the United Nations 1267 Committee on its list of individuals whose assets should be seized. He was removed from the list on December 23, 2004, after agreeing to testify against other individuals suspected of being members of

, pleading guilty to lesser charges, whereupon he was enrolled in Germany's

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. Removal from the list was required for him to receive German assistance while in the witness protection program. The ''

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'' reported that Shadi Abdellah acknowledged serving as one of Osama bin Laden's bodyguards.

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