The Afghan resistance movement bringing the fight to the Taliban’s doorstep
When the CIA decided to take back thousands of stinger missiles from Afghanistan in the 1980s, fearing they would fall into the hands of Iran, they knew of only one powerful warlord they could trust to help.
US agents held secret talks with the fabled hero of Afghanistan’s resistance against the Soviets and the Taliban – Ahmad Shah Massoud, the guerrilla commander who famously warned the West about the threat of al-Qaeda and Osama bin Laden months before 9/11.
Massoud was killed two days before the attack on the World Trade Center, when two of Bin Laden’s men walked into his home in Takhar masquerading as journalists and and detonated a bomb they had placed in their camera. His then 12-year-old son Ahmad Massoud became the undisputed heir of Afghanistan’s domestic resistance against ultra-fundamentalist terrorism.
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