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An Afghan training camp is a camp or facility used for militant training located in pre-2001 Afghanistan. At the time of the September 11, 2001 attacks, Indian intelligence officials estimated that there were over 120 training camps operating in Afghanistan and Pakistan, run by a variety of militant groups. CNN reports that these camps are particularly hard to track due to their ability to relocate easily, and because of the rough terrain in the regions they are found.

In 2002, journalists with The New York Times examined the sites of several former training camps, finding 5,000 documents. According to The New York Times:


 * The documents show that the training camps were focused largely on creating an army to support the Taliban, which was waging a long ground war against the Northern Alliance. During the period of the Bush administration officials described the camps as factories churning out terrorists.

On July 25, 2007, scholars at the Combating Terrorism Center at the United States Military Academy published a study that named over two dozen training camps allegedly attended by Guantanamo captives.