I'd read that article you linked to several months ago, and couldn't believe this could be happening in Alabama. Marion, AL (home of Marion Institute - one of our finest military schools) is a small community where everybody knows everybody. A friend of mine has family there and I asked her to get me a little background on the camp if at all possible. When she called her family they had already seen the ABC article and investigated the place.
From the article (bold is mine):
The site, since taken down by British authorities, described what seemed to be the Alabama camp, including live-fire exercises at a state-of-the-art shooting range in the United States — something that would not be legal in Britain.
"In the United States, it is not illegal for anyone to receive military training, high-grade military training," said Rohan Gunaratna, author of Inside Al Qaeda.
The actual owners of camp, who are also British, say it was used primarily to train law enforcement personnel. Officials consider them unwitting accomplices. The camp owners declined to talk to ABCNEWS.
They claim the information in the article is completely false. The camp was used for law enforcement training and as a private shooting range. Furthermore, if Al Queda were indeed in Marion, they would stick out like a sore thumb. (I speak southern, folks in Marion speak extreme southern.)
FWIW, I thought I'd share this with you since it is alleged to have happened in my backyard.