Najim Jihad (also Nazim Jihad, Abu Mahajin, Najim al Jihad complex) is the name given to a housing compound outside Jalalabad, Afghanistan, which is the former home of Osama bin Laden

Osama bin Laden

Osama bin Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden was the founder of the militant Islamist organization Al-Qaeda, the jihadist organization responsible for the September 11 attacks on the United States and numerous other mass-casualty attacks against civilian and military targets...

 and approximately 250 followers.

With internal plumbing, the compound was formally located in Hadda.

In 1997, the Canadian NGO leader Ahmed Khadr began visiting Bin Laden in Nazim Jihad, and the following year his family moved into the compound, which his children nicknamed "Star Wars

Star Wars

Star Wars is an American epic space opera film series created by George Lucas. The first film in the series was originally released on May 25, 1977, under the title Star Wars, by 20th Century Fox, and became a worldwide pop culture phenomenon, followed by two sequels, released at three-year...

", while their father was away, but only stayed a short time before bin Laden moved to a new home and didn't invite the Khadrs to accompany him. In mid-1997, the Northern Alliance

Northern Alliance

The Afghan Northern Alliance is a military-political umbrella organization created by the Islamic State of Afghanistan in 1996.Northern Alliance may also refer to:*Northern Alliance , a Canadian white supremacist group...

 threatened to overrun Jalalabad

Jalalabad

Jalalabad , formerly called Adinapour, as documented by the 7th century Hsüan-tsang, is a city in eastern Afghanistan. Located at the junction of the Kabul River and Kunar River near the Laghman valley, Jalalabad is the capital of Nangarhar province. It is linked by approximately of highway with...

, causing Bin Laden to abandon Nazim Jihad and move his operations to Kandahar

Kandahar

Kandahar is the second largest city in Afghanistan, with a population of about 512,200 as of 2011. It is the capital of Kandahar Province, located in the south of the country at about 1,005 m above sea level...

 in the south, although the Khadrs were not invited to follow him and consequently moved to Kabul

Kabul

Kabul , spelt Caubul in some classic literatures, is the capital and largest city of Afghanistan. It is also the capital of the Kabul Province, located in the eastern section of Afghanistan...

.

In their tribunal proceedings at Guantanamo Bay, Abu Bakr Alahdal

Abu Bakr Alahdal

Abu Bakr Ibn Ali Muhhammad Alahdal is a citizen of Yemen currently held in the Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba after being classified as an enemy combatant by the United States's....

 and Abdul Rahman Khowlan

Abdul Rahman Khowlan

Abdul Rahman Mohammed Hussein Khowlanis a citizen of Saudi Arabia who was held in extrajudicial detention in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba.American intelligence analysts estimate he was born in 1972, in Taif, Saudi Arabia....

 were accused of having stayed at Najim Jihad during the Fall of Kabul.

Hadda was also the site of a farming compound owned by Yunis Khalis, which bin Laden visited.