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Article: Captured Talibans tell of life in camps of hate; War on Terror: An insight into how Al Qaeda indoctrinates fighters: David Williams with a terrifying report from Alliance jails.
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- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- October 23, 2001
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Byline: DAVID WILLIAMS
TALIBAN prisoners held in north Afghanistan have given a chilling insight into life inside Osama Bin Laden's terror camps.
From inside the squalid, overcrowded cells of three jails, Taliban fighters have told how recruits swear lifelong oaths of allegiance to the Saudi millionaire's Al Qaeda network.
Anti-U.S. brainwashing is preached daily, followed by protracted religious instruction to boys as young as 14.
They are trained to use Kalashnikovs, rocket launchers, grenades and handguns, told how to make bombs and carry out surveillance - and they are instructed in germ warfare.
Experiments are carried ...