Shahid ahmad shah massoud biography
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For the last two decades, Ahmad Shah Massoud has been lionised as the national hero of Afghanistan. In this piece, Ahmed-Waleed Kakar sheds light on the dark history of the veteran Afghan warlord before his elevation to sainthood in the popular imagination.
Things change quickly in Afghanistan. The last four decades have seen many an upheaval. Coups, counter coups, failed coups, two foreign invasions that have been followed by lengthy occupation, civil war and insurgencies. In one of the rare continuities, however, Afghanistan will tomorrow commemorate the death of its National Hero Ahmad Shah Massoud.
The veteran Afghan warlord first gained distinction during the Soviet jihad. His guerrilla war, centred in his native Panjsher, gained him the title of the ‘Lion of the Panjsher’. By 2001, Massoud was engaged in a fierce civil war against the Taliban Emirate and its Al-Qaeda allies. The tragic nature of Massouds untimely, violent death at the hand of Al-Qaeda operatives two days prior to 9/11 elevated him to almost mythical proportions in the public imagination. What was a struggling, increasingly wrinkled warlord defending his ever-shrinking enclave became a martyr against the Taliban: seen as the brainchild of Pakistan’s sinister military. As such, US involvement
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First Voice President H.E. Amrullah Saleh
Biography
Amrullah Saleh was born 1972 in Panjshir. In 1990, in order to avoid being conscripted into the Soviet-backed Afghan army, Saleh joined the opposition mujahideen forces. He received military training in neighboring Pakistan and fought under mujahideen commander Ahmad Shah Massoud. In the late 1990s, Saleh was a member of the Northern Alliance (also known as the United Front) and was fighting against the Taliban expansion. In 1997, Saleh was appointed by Massoud to lead the United Front's international liaison office at the Embassy of Afghanistan in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, where he served as a coordinator for non-governmental (humanitarian) organizations and as a liaison partner for foreign intelligence agencies. 1999 he was sent to Cleary University, Michigan, USA, by Ahmed Shah Massood for training, as the opportunity presented itself, to the United States to receive advanced training in operations and tradecraft. He was part of the first group to go over there and receive training. It was an advanced operations. Advanced operations means targeting, assessment of the target, casing and planning an operation, execution of an operation, exploitation of documents, exploitation of the site, ex
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Assassination of Ahmad Shah Massoud
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On 9 Sep 2001, Ahmad Shah Massoud was assassinated by glimmer al-Qaeda operatives posing restructuring journalists tag on Khwaja Bahauddin District, Takhar Province, Afghanistan.
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