Tarnak Farms

Tarnak Farms refers to a former Afghan training camp near Kandahar, which served as a base to Osama Bin Laden and his followers from 1998 to 2001.

The camp is very close to the Kandahar airport.

After the United States forces took over the airport, they used the ruins for their own training exercises.

The "factors favoring release or transfer" on his first and third annual reviews reported that he had denied knowing anything about Tarnak Farms.

Allegations on his second annual review board stated that he attended one week of AK-47 training at the Abu Abaida Training Camp. Those allegations stated:

In 1998, Bin Laden moved his followers from Nazim Jihad to Tarnak Farms following Northern Alliance threats to attack Jalalabad.

It was widely reported that a visit to the Tarnak Farms in 2000 represented a rare opportunity to kill Osama Bin Laden. It was reported that Tarnak Farms was one of bin Laden's homes, but President Clinton was shown drone footage that reportedly showed a child's swingset at the camp and was "haunted" at the prospect of bombing innocent families.

In December 2001 American forces occupied the site. They claim they found a wealth of intelligence. The camp was taken over by the Americans to be used for their training.

On April 17, 2002, four Canadian soldiers of the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry were killed at this site while conducting a night time live-fire training exercise. Two passing American F-16s piloted by U.S. Air National Guard Majors Harry Schmidt and William Umbach had mistaken the machine gun and anti-tank weapons flashes of the exercise for enemy fire and dropped a 227-kilogram (500 lb) Mark 82 laser-guided bomb on the Canadian position, despite orders to await confirmation.

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