Pubbi(Pak), Jan 24: A six-hour walk along a narrow path that runs like a seam through Afghanistan`s Urgun mountains leads to a remote village near the Pakistani border. Grenades are lined up like sentries along a small patch of land, nearby there is a pile of explosives. Najibullah, a young Afghan, described the terrorist training camp where he was given explosives training just last month, even as US Special Forces and helicopter gunships scoured the mountains of eastern Afghanistan searching for militants.
Recruits reveal about terror camps in Afghanistan and Pakistan and gave details of how they learned to carry out bomb attacks and suicide ambushes.
The camp near the village of Okai described by Najibullah still operates, the 23-year-old said. Most of those in charge were Ar abs loyal to Osama Bin Laden; those in training were Afghans, Pakistanis, some Southeast Asians and some Arabs, Najibullah said.
Some of the trainees belong to the Taliban, some to Bin Laden`s al-Qaeda terror network. Najibullah, a follower of Afghan warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, said he was ready to die to help drive American and other troops from his country or bring down the pro-US government of Hamid Karzai.
"I went there to learn to kill the foreign troops in Afghanistan. We will drive them out because they are destroying our country," said the young Afghan, his beard a wispy collection of hairs. The United Nations and intelligence officials have said there is a resurgence of terrorist training camps in the remote regions along both sides of the Afghan-Pakistani border. Bureau Report