Najim Jihad (نجم الجهاد; also ''Nazim Jihad'',
''Abu Mahajin'',
[ ''Najim al Jihad complex''][
]) is a housing compound outside Jalalabad, Afghanistan, which is the former home of Osama bin Laden
Osama bin Laden (10 March 19572 May 2011) was a militant leader who was the founder and first general emir of al-Qaeda. Ideologically a pan-Islamist, Bin Laden participated in the Afghan ''mujahideen'' against the Soviet Union, and support ...
and approximately 250 followers.[Forney, Matthew. ]TIME
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,
A Trip Inside bin Laden's Caves
, December 24, 2001 the compound was formally located in Hadda.
In 1997, the Canadian NGO leader Ahmed Khadr began visiting Bin Laden in ''Nazim Jihad'', and the following year his family moved into the compound, which his children nicknamed " Star Wars",[Hughes, Gregory T. ]FBI
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, " Affidavit of Gregory T. Hughes", 2005 In mid-1997, the Northern Alliance threatened to overrun Jalalabad
Jalalabad (; Help:IPA/Persian, ͡ʒä.lɑː.lɑː.bɑːd̪ is the list of cities in Afghanistan, fifth-largest city of Afghanistan. It has a population of about 200,331, and serves as the capital of Nangarhar Province in the eastern part ...
, causing Bin Laden to abandon Nazim Jihad and move his operations to Kandahar in the south, although the Khadrs were not invited to follow him and consequently moved to Kabul
Kabul is the capital and largest city of Afghanistan. Located in the eastern half of the country, it is also a municipality, forming part of the Kabul Province. The city is divided for administration into #Districts, 22 municipal districts. A ...
.[Testimony of Abdurahman Khadr as a witness in the trial against Charkaoui, July 13, 2004]
In their tribunal proceedings at Guantanamo Bay, Abu Bakr Alahdal and Abdul Rahman Khowlan were accused of having stayed at Najim Jihad during the Fall of Kabul.[
]
Hadda was also the site of a farming compound owned by Yunis Khalis, which bin Laden visited.[ Brassey's, Through Our Enemies' Eyes, 2002]
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Osama bin Laden
Buildings and structures in Nangarhar Province
Jalalabad
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