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The Al Farouq training camp, also called Jihad Wel al-Farouq, [ 1 ] 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. Nasir al-Bahri reported that the camp was only established following the arrival of Egyptian ...
The 2007 New Zealand police raidswere a series of armed policeraids conducted on 15 and 16 October 2007, in response to alleged paramilitary training camps in the Ureweramountain range near the town of Ruatoki. [1][2][3]About 300 police, including members of the Armed Offenders Squadand Special Tactics Group, were involved in the raids, which ...
Mohamedou Ould Slahi (Arabic: محمدو ولد الصلاحي; born December 21, 1970) is a Mauritanian engineer who was detained at Guantánamo Bay detention camp without charge from 2002 until his release on October 17, 2016.
An Afghan jihadist camp, or an Afghan training camp, is a term used to describe a camp or facility used for militant training located in Afghanistan. At the time of the September 11 attacks in 2001, Indian intelligence officials estimated that there were over 120 jihadist camps operating in Afghanistan and Pakistan, run by a variety of militant ...
Phar Lap (4 October 1926 – 5 April 1932) was a New Zealand-born champion Australian Thoroughbred racehorse. Achieving great success during his distinguished career, his initial underdog status gave people hope during the early years of the Great Depression. [ 3 ] He won the Melbourne Cup, two Cox Plates, the Australian Derby, and 19 other ...
The Red Army Faction (RAF, German: [ɛʁʔaːˈʔɛf] ⓘ; German: Rote Armee Fraktion, pronounced [ˌʁoː.tə aʁˈmeː fʁakˌt͡si̯oːn] ⓘ), [a] also known as the Baader–Meinhof Group or Baader–Meinhof Gang (German: Baader-Meinhof-Gruppe, Baader-Meinhof-Bande, German: [ˈbaːdɐ ˈmaɪ̯nˌhɔf ˈɡʁʊpə] ⓘ), was a West German far-left militant group founded in 1970 and active ...
Light infantry and rifle battalions were composed of eight companies. While the rifle-armed units adopted a dark green uniform, the musket-armed light infantry units wore tailless jackets in the traditional red colour. [4] In addition to light infantry duties, they could form up in close order and perform as line infantry if required.