The Jelazee Refugee Camp was a refugee camp

Refugee camp

A refugee camp is a temporary settlement built to receive refugees. Hundreds of thousands of people may live in any one single camp. Usually they are built and run by a government, the United Nations, or international organizations, or NGOs.Refugee camps are generally set up in an impromptu...

 in Pakistan

Pakistan

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, near the Afghanistan

Afghanistan

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 border.

American

United States

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 intelligence analysts

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 alleged, during the Administrative Review Board

Administrative Review Board

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 hearing of Guantanamo detainee

Guantanamo Bay detainment camp

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 Adel Hassan Hamad

Adel Hassan Hamad

-Lawsuit:On May 14, 2008 the Daily Times of Pakistan reported that "Salim Mahmud Adam" and "Adel Hasan Hamad" had announced plans to sue the United States government over their detention....

, that the camp was directed by Zahid Al-Sheikh

Zahid Al-Sheikh

Zahid Al-Sheikh is the brother to alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammad. He volunteered to travel to Afghanistan to help fight to resist the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan....

, an older brother of senior al Qaeda planner Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.
American analysts allege that Zahid Al-Sheikh was also an extremist with ties to terrorism.

Hamad acknowledged that when he first started working for the Hira Islamic Institute Al-Sheikh was the director of Lajnat Al-Da'wa al Islamia

Lajnat Al-Da'wa al Islamia

Lajnat Al-Da'wa al Islamia is a Kuwaiti based Muslim non-governmental organization.The Lajnat Al-Da'wa al Islamia's mandate is to serve as a humanitarian aid organization....

, and his ultimate boss, but he was never the director of the Jelazee Refugee Camp.
He said that while his relationship with him was a distant business relationship he never saw any clue that Al-Sheikh was an extremist, or tied to terrorism.

Médecins Sans Frontières

Médecins Sans Frontières

' , or Doctors Without Borders, is a secular humanitarian-aid non-governmental organization best known for its projects in war-torn regions and developing countries facing endemic diseases. Its headquarters are in Geneva, Switzerland...

 reported that the camp was closed in early 2002.
Médecins Sans Frontières called the camp "infamous", and recounted that it had been known as "a living cemetery".

In a report in the Pakistani newspaper Dawn

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, published in late December 2001, an Afghan refugee named Haji

Hajji

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 Dost Mohammad, who was then in charge of the camp's security, reported that Osama bin Laden

Osama bin Laden

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had made a food delivery to the camp in the late 1980s.