[1][2][3] Peter Bergen quoted Shadi Abdalla's description of the al Farouq training camp in his book The Osama bin Laden I Know.
[2] On September 24, 2003, the United States Treasury designated Shadi Abdalla and the same four other men who had been captured in Germany as "members of Zarqawi’s German-based terrorist cell Al Tawhid".
[3] The other four men asserted to be members of the German cell were: Mohamed Abu Dhess, Aschraf Al-Dagma, Ismail Shalabi and Djamel Moustfa.
[4] He was removed from the list on December 23, 2004, after agreeing to testify against other individuals suspected of being members of al Qaeda, pleading guilty to lesser charges, whereupon he was enrolled in Germany's witness protection program.
BBC News reported that Shadi Abdellah acknowledged serving as one of Osama bin Laden's bodyguards.