Bassam Kanj was one of four men, Mohamad Elzahabi

Mohamad Elzahabi

Mohamad Kamal Elzahabi is a Lebanese national who worked as a small arms instructor at an Afghan training camp in the 1990s. During the War on Terror, he was arrested based on his past associations,and was convicted of immigration fraud.-Entry to United States:Elzahabi entered the United States in...

, Nabil al-Marabh, Kanj and Raed Hijazi

Raed Hijazi

Born in California, Raed Hijazi was one of four men, Mohamad Elzahabi, Nabil al-Marabh, Bassam Kanj and Hijazi, who met each other at the Khalden training camp where they met during the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan...

, who met each other at the Khalden training camp

Khalden training camp

The Khalden training camp was a military training camp in Afghanistan. According to the documentary Son of al Qaeda there were hundreds of military training camps in Afghanistan which were tied to al Qaeda...

 where they were during the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Although the four men each went their separate ways following the war, in 1998 they were all working as cab drivers in Boston, Massachusetts, the first three of them all working for the same company.

Bassam moved to Boston in 1995, and immediately took work as a cab driver.

He was killed by Lebanese soldiers in 2000, while taking part in an Islamist coup.