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School for jihad or school for the jihad is a term used by scholars and intelligence analysts who study islamic militancy.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8]

According to Tom Lasseter, in the McClatchy News Service's profile of repatriated Guantananmo captives, poorly thought out camp policies had turned the Guantanamo Bay detention camp into a "school for jihad".[1]

In his 2005 book "The jihad factory: Pakistan's Islamic revolution in the making" Shusant Sareen described the success of fighters in Afghanistan ousting the Soviets during the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan as a "school for jihad" for islamic militants from other nations.[2]

In his 2004 book "Jihad in paradise: Islam and politics in Southeast Asia" Mike Millard suggested Bakar Bashir, the spiritual leader of Jemaah Islamiyah ran a school for jihad in Java, were he used psychologically manipulative techniques to transfer trainees reverence to God to a reverences to him personally.[3]

The allegations used to justify the continued detention of Yemeni captive in Guantanamo Abdul Al Saleh asserted that he traveled from the Taliban's office in Quetta, Pakistan, to the school for the jihad in Kandahar, and upon arrival announced his willingness to fight the jihad, and was dispatched early, after just three days of training, with fifty other fighters, to reinforce the Taliban, against the Northern Alliance, in Northern Afghanistan.[4][5][6][7]

The allegations used to justify the continued detention of Saudi captive in Guantanamo Abdul Rahman Ma Ath Thafir al-Amri asserted that he “... met with an Afghani Taliban leader who sent the detainee to a Jihad school in Kandahar, where the detainee was interrogated to ensure that he was not a spy.”[8]

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  1. ^ a b Tom Lasseter (2008-06-17). "Detainees recruited for jihad". Seattle Times. Retrieved 2010-06-16. The Taliban and al-Qaida leaders in the cells around them were ready to preach their firebrand interpretation of Islam and the need to wage jihad, Islamic holy war, against the West. Guantánamo became a school for jihad, complete with a council of elders who issued fatwas — binding religious instructions — to the other detainees.
  2. ^ a b Sushant Sareen (2005). The jihad factory: Pakistan's Islamic revolution in the making. Har-Anand Publications. p. 15. ISBN 9788124110751. Retrieved 2010-06-16. According to this report, one of the main inspirations for the the [Kashmiri] militants appears to be what they see as the Afghan Mujahedin's success in driving the Soviet Union out of Afghanistan. Comparisons with the Afghan war are hard to avoid. Despite the insistence of a number of militant spokesmen that their conflict is a secular one, the fight for Kashmir is being portrayed increasingly as a Jihad. In what could be termed a school for Jihad, Muslim brethren from numerous Islamic countries have prayed and fought together in the hills of the Afghan province of Paktia. {{cite book}}: line feed character in |quote= at position 88 (help)
  3. ^ a b Mike Millard (2004). Jihad in paradise: Islam and politics in Southeast Asia. M.E. Sharpe. p. 52. ISBN 9780765613356. Retrieved 2010-06-16. This seduction was carried out by interpreting sacred texts to justify political motivations and aims, and then through the gradual transfer of reverence for God to the words of the clerics themselves. Were these methods of control used by Bashir at his Mukmin boarding school for jihad on crowded Java island, and by Maidin with the Singapore terrorists? {{cite book}}: line feed character in |quote= at position 103 (help)
  4. ^ a b OARDEC (6 October 2004). "Summary of Evidence for Combatant Status Review Tribunal -- Al Saleh Abdul" (PDF). United States Department of Defense. pp. 9–10. Retrieved 2008-06-01. The detainee traveled from Yemen to a Taliban office in Quetta, Pakistan and then to the School for the Jihad in Kandahar, Afghanistan.
  5. ^ a b OARDEC (2005-05-02). "Unclassified Summary of Evidence for Administrative Review Board in the case of Al Saleh, Abdul" (PDF). United States Department of Defense. pp. 61–63. The detainee traveled from Yemen to a Taliban office in Quetta, Pakistan and then to the School for the Jihad in Kandahar, Afghanistan. fast mirror
  6. ^ a b OARDEC (2006-03-08). "Unclassified Summary of Evidence for Administrative Review Board in the case of Al Saleh, Abdul". United States Department of Defense. Following the detainee's arrival at the Jihad School, the detainee informed the individual he talked with that the detainee had been in the military in Yemen and was ready to fight in the jihad.
  7. ^ a b OARDEC (2007-02-14). "Unclassified Summary of Evidence for Administrative Review Board in the case of Al Saleh, Abdul". United States Department of Defense. On the third day at the jihad school, the detainee was informed there was an emergency in northern Afghanistan and the detainee volunteered to go with a group of fifty Taliban to fight the Northern Alliance.
  8. ^ a b OARDEC (October 6, 2005). "Unclassified Summary of Evidence for Administrative Review Board in the case of Al Amri, Abdul Rahman Ma Ath Thafir" (PDF). United States Department of Defense. pp. 41–44. Retrieved 2007-10-08. The detainee met with an Afghani Taliban leader who sent the detainee to a Jihad school in Kandahar, where the detainee was interrogated to ensure that he was not a spy.

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