 Some survivors later claimed they did not participate in the battle.One also told "The Observer" reporter Luke Harding that some wanted to surrender earlier, but a group of seven Arabs took control and did not let them.The Uyghur Turkistan Islamic Party's "Islamic Turkistan" magazine in its 5th edition published an obituary of its member Turghun (Ibn Umar al Turkistani) speaking of his time training at the Al Khaldan training camp and his meeting with Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi.