 The purpose of the camp outside of Jalalabad, Afghanistan, where the Uighurs lived for months prior to the United States invasion of Afghanistan, is disputed.Many of the Uyghur captives in Guantanamo claimed that the camp was simply a place for Uyghurs fleeing "Chinese oppression" gathered.Seema Saifee, a lawyer for four of the Uyghurs called the camp an "expatriate village in the mountains."