School for the Jihad

School for jihad or school for the jihad is a term used by scholars and intelligence analysts who study islamic militancy.
According to Tom Lasseter, in the McClatchy News Service's profile of repatriated Guantananmo captives, poorly thought out camp policies had turned the Guantanamo Bay detention camp into a "school for jihad".<ref name=McClatchy-2008-06-17/>
In his 2005 book "The jihad factory: Pakistan's Islamic revolution in the making" Shusant Sareen described the success of fighters in Afghanistan ousting the Soviets during the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan as a "school for jihad" for islamic militants from other nations.<ref name=JihadFactory/>
In his 2004 book "Jihad in paradise: Islam and politics in Southeast Asia" Mike Millard suggested Bakar Bashir, the spiritual leader of Jemaah Islamiyah running a school for jihad in Java, were he used psychologically manipulative techniques to transfer trainees reverence to God to a reverences to him personally.<ref name=JihadInParadise/>
The allegations used to justify the continued detention of Yemeni captive in Guantanamo Abdul Al Saleh asserted that there was an Afghan training camp called the School for the Jihad in Kandahar.<ref name=CsrtSummaryOfEvidenceAlSalehAbdul/>
Guantanamo detainee Abdul Al Saleh faced the allegation that he: "...traveled from Yemen to a Taliban office in Quetta, Pakistan and then to the School for the Jihad in Kandahar, Afghanistan.
The allegations used to justify the continued detention of Abdul Rahman Ma Ath Thafir al-Amri asserted that he “... met with an Afghani Taliban leader who sent the detainee to a Jihad school in Kandahar, where the detainee was interrogated to ensure that he was not a spy.”<ref name=Arb1SummaryOfEvidenceAbdulRahmanMaAthThafirAlAmri/>

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