Through a series of contacts he found his way to Peshawar where he met
Abu Zubaydah, the gatekeeper of the Afghan training camps who would be captured soon after 9/11 and was recently transferred from a secret CIA prison to Guantanamo Bay.
His first stop was Khalden, one of al-Qaeda's key training camps. Amongst those who attended were
Mohammed Atta - the ringleader of the 9-11 attacks - and
Richard Reid, the so called "shoe bomber" who tried to detonate explosives on a transatlantic flight.
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Recruits were also trained how to resist interrogation and provide false information - Nasiri's mentor at the camps,
Ibn Sheikh al-Libi, would go on to provide false evidence of links between al-Qaeda and Iraq after he was captured by the US.
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From Khalden, Nasiri was sent to Darunta, the "graduate" school which focused on training individuals for operations.
There, recruits learnt how to make explosives and detonators from scratch.
Nasiri also witnessed chemical weapons experiments - including the use of gases and poisons on rabbits, evidence of an organised WMD programme far earlier than had previously been reported.
With his training complete,
Abu Zubaydah despatched Nasiri back to Europe with instructions to set up a "sleeper" cell and to remain in contact.
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