Terrorist training camp

Abu Isa training camp is an ISIL training camp located in Ninewa whose trainer was identified as Jundullah al-Azeri.

Abu Hamza al-Masri was indicted in a conspiracy to attempt to establish a "terrorist training camp" in late 1999 and early 2000 with Taliban supporter Earnest James Ujaama who traveled to Bly, Oregon, with a dozen men from his Seattle house of worship. Ujaama is a US citizen who had met Abu Hamza in England in 1999 and was indicted in the US for providing aid to al-Qaeda, attempting to establish a terrorist training camp, and for running a website advocating global jihad.{{Cite news| url=http://archives.cnn.com/2002/LAW/08/29/ujaama.background/index.html|work=CNN|title=From community activist to alleged terror conspirator|date=29 August 2002}}{{cite web |url=https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/05/the-terror-camp-that-wasnt-106446 |title= The Terror Camp That Wasn't jihadist training ground, or an elaborate scam? |author= Phil Hirschkorn |date= May 7, 2014 |work= Politico |access-date= March 19, 2019 }} The FBI has confirmed some reports Jamaat ul-Fuqra headquartered at the “Islamberg” community in upstate New York was training members in isolated communes across America and Canada.[https://clarionproject.org/exclusive-fbi-confirms-jihadi-training-camps-america/ January 31, 2018 By Ryan Mauro "Exclusive: FBI Confirms Jihadi Training Camps in America Clarion Project"][https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/08/us/new-mexico-compound-complaint-school-shooting/index.html/ "New Mexico compound suspects were training children for school shootings, prosecutors say"], cnn.com, 8 August 2018.

In Amalia, New Mexico in the United States of America, in the summer of 2018 on a remote site with a small camping trailer within a surrounding wall of car tires, 5 adults, 11 hungry children (ages 1 to 15), and later a dead child, were found. Court documents stated the children had been trained for shootings at schools.[https://www.timesofisrael.com/prosecutor-man-at-new-mexico-compound-trained-kids-for-school-shooting/ Prosecutor: Man at New Mexico compound trained kids for school shooting] timesofisrael.com, 9 August 2018.

Federal terrorism, kidnapping, and firearms charges were brought against five adults in March 2019.{{cite web |url= https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/new-mexico-compound-was-alleged-terrorist-training-camp-to-kill-us-officers |title= New Mexico compound was alleged terrorist training camp to kill US officers |author= Caitlin Yilek |date= March 15, 2019 |work= Washington Examiner |quote= Assistant Attorney General John Demers said those attacks were being planned against federal law enforcement officers and members of the military. |access-date= March 15, 2019 }}

During the Troubles (1969 to 1998), the Republic of Ireland was used by the Provisional Irish Republican Army for training camps where they manufactured homemade weapons and recruited hundreds or thousands of Southern Irish citizens as IRA volunteers for cross-border attacks in Northern Ireland and England. This safe haven in the Republic primarily contributed to the longevity of the conflict.{{cite book|author=Gearóid Ó Faoleán|title=A Broad Church: The Provisional IRA in the Republic of Ireland, 1969–1980|date=2019|page=52|publisher=Merrion Press|isbn=978-1-7853-7245-2}}{{citation|url=https://www.newsletter.co.uk/news/republic-ireland-played-integral-role-supporting-ira-says-historian-988519|title=Republic of Ireland played integral role in supporting IRA, says historian|date=5 April 2019|publisher=News Letter}} The IRA Southern Command was headquartered in Dublin during the conflict and handled the training camps, recruiting, financing, safe houses, and weapons procurement in the Republic or overseas to support IRA Northern Command operations in Northern Ireland. On November 30, 1981, Irish security forces discovered the IRA training camp in West Donegal and had "so far uncovered 10 rifles, a shotgun, 4,000 rounds of ammunition, uniforms and IRA training manuals."{{cite news|url=https://www.upi.com/Archives/1981/11/30/Irish-security-forces-have-discovered-an-IRA-training-camp/2478944057053/|title=Irish security forces have discovered an IRA training camp...|date=November 30, 1981|publisher=United Press International}}

These encampments provide recruits with weapons training, protocol training, interaction with skilled veterans, and a secure geographic location for operations. Recruits are regularly indoctrinated in the goals and beliefs of the organization.{{Cite web|url=https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/terrorist-indoctrination-turning-people-killers-norman |author1=Lihou Dr. Norman T. Lihou |date=25 January 2015 |title=Terrorist Indoctrination Turning People into Killers |website=LinkedIn|access-date=20 June 2017}}{{dead link|date=July 2018|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}} Organizational leaders attempt to isolate recruits from their outside social connections and force them to establish a new identity.{{Citation needed|date=December 2017}} This allows the organization to become the “family” of the recruit and generate loyalty to the organization's goals.

Depending on the type of organization, the religion and “strength of faith” of the recruit is often an indicator of their status within the organization. Those who are not willing to comply, even after completion of training, are often punished and undergo training to strengthen their observance.{{Citation needed|date=December 2017}} Terrorist recruits are tested on knowledge of their religion and of rival groups. Recruiters do this to verify that each recruit has the necessary beliefs, which ensures organizational unification. Religious verification ensures that each member is working towards mutual goals.{{Cite web|url=http://www.apa.org/monitor/2009/11/terrorism.aspx |title=Understanding Terrorism |last=DeAngelis |first=Tori |date=November 2009|website=American Psychological Association |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100109122812/http://www.apa.org/monitor/2009/11/terrorism.aspx|archive-date=2010-01-09|url-status=dead |access-date=20 June 2017}}

Recruiters use techniques that exploit or create mental trauma in order to produce a dissociated mindset in recruits — a condition in which the identity and awareness of the recruit is reset. Typical recruits look to join terrorist organizations because they are angry, alienated and/or disenfranchised.{{citation needed|date=July 2018}} Common thought processes include: believing that their current political involvement does not give them the power to effect change; identifying with perceived victims of the perceived social injustice they are fighting; feeling the need to take action; believing that violence is not immoral; having friends or family sympathetic to the cause; and craving social and psychological rewards such as adventure, camaraderie, and a heightened sense of identity.{{citation needed|date=July 2018}} Internet and cyber-skills are sought after as technically knowledgeable recruits can help the organization.{{citation needed|date=July 2018}}

Many terrorist organizations train recruits in guerrilla warfare. Recruits must be in shape in order to learn these tactics. An ISIS workout video shows that cardiovascular fitness is important.{{Cite web|url=http://domesticity.gawker.com/a-fitness-critique-of-the-isis-terrorist-workout-video-1593208538|title=A Fitness Critique of the ISIS Terrorist Workout Video|last=Nolan|first=Hamilton|date=19 June 2014|website=Domesticity|access-date=20 June 2017}} Recruits often train in full uniform, with weapons in hand. Recruits need to be able to survive in their environment with little nourishment. Recruits learn that if success is not attained, they will not be rescued.{{Cite book|title=Terrorist Training Centers Around the World|last=Forest|first=James|publisher=Praeger Security International|year=2006|location=Westport, Conn.|pages=296–309}}

Abu Isa training camp is an ISIL training camp located in Ninewa whose trainer was identified as Jundullah al-Azeri.{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yDOoDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT187 |title=Networked Insurgencies and Foreign Fighters in Eurasia |first1=Jean-Francois |last1=Ratelle |first2=Laurence |last2=Broers |publisher=Routledge |date=2016 |page=187 |isbn=9781351583534}}{{cite news |url=https://www.intelcenter.com/reports/islamic-state-videos/IntelCenter-IslamicState-VideoSampleListing-23Nov2015r.pdf |title=Terrorist & Rebel Video Listing: Islamic State (IS) |date=23 November 2015 |access-date=17 December 2019 |work=IntelCenter Database (ICD) |page=66}}{{cite journal |title=The Islamic State and the connections to historical networks of Jihadism in Azerbaijan |first=David |last=Lonardo |pages=239–260 |date=22 August 2016 |doi=10.1080/23761199.2016.1221218 |journal=Caucasus Survey |volume=4 |issue=3 |publisher=Tandfonline|s2cid=133350303 }}

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