'SAS trained bin Laden' claim

The Mujahedin guerrillas supporting Osama bin Laden, the chief suspect for the US atrocity, were secretly trained in Scotland, according to a British Sunday newspaper.

'SAS trained bin Laden' claim

The Mujahedin guerrillas supporting Osama bin Laden, the chief suspect for the US atrocity, were secretly trained in Scotland, according to a British Sunday newspaper.

In an interview, a former SAS member, Ken Connor, said that training camps were set up in a remote mountain area in 1983. At that time the UK and America were supporting Afghanistan in its fight against the Soviet Union.

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