'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.

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.

Connor said that the highland training camps were located in Dumfries, the west highlands and also in northern England.

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