Talk:Wali Khan Amin Shah

Dubious assertion he founded the Khalden training camp...

I trimmed the dubious assertion he founded the Khalden training camp [1]. One might assume the assertion was supported by the one reference in that paragraph. I checked. It wasn't.

It is a dubious assertion. Depending on one's point of view, Khalden was either started by the CIA, to provide basis military training to the Afghan-Arabs it flew to Afghanistan, or it was started by its first director, a Syrian, and former Army officer, who wrote its training manual, which was adopted by the al Qaeda camps.

While US intelligence documents used to routinely conflate Khalden with al Qaeda's training camps it actually seems to have been operated by a rival group, one with key ideological differences from al Qaeda. I removed the assertion, rather than tag it with Template:Tl, since it was so dubious. Geo Swan (talk) 16:32, 9 December 2020 (UTC)