God Bless Masoud. God's speed.
1 posted on
09/09/2002 3:55:30 PM PDT by
GOP_Lady
To: GOP_Lady
"It would have been difficult to resist for very long without Commander Massood," he said. "Maybe we would have lasted a month or two." In less than a month, however, American warplanes were flying over Afghanistan, pulverizing Taliban and Al Qaeda positions. U.S. and allied ground forces entered the country in pursuit of bin Laden and his followers.
Massood's enemies crumbled, and the northern alliance rolled into Kabul and other cities.
Maybe it really is darkest just before the dawn.
To: GOP_Lady
3 posted on
09/09/2002 4:01:59 PM PDT by
Shermy
To: GOP_Lady
"I told the commander very slowly and softly, 'They belong to the other side.' I thought they were very close to the Taliban. They were against us. Khalili joked that the Arab seemed more like a wrestler than a cameraman.
Always trust that still small voice when it's trying to tell you something.
To: GOP_Lady
5 posted on
09/09/2002 4:23:49 PM PDT by
HAL9000
To: GOP_Lady
a successor, current Defense Minister Mohammed Fahim I was under the impression that General Rashid Dostum succeeded Massoud as head of the Northern Alliance. At least its military force.
6 posted on
09/09/2002 4:31:47 PM PDT by
IronJack
To: GOP_Lady
Only a few people were with Massood when two Arabs in casual Western clothes prepared to interview him at his headquarters in the northern town of Khodja Bahauddin that day. According to a Christian Aid worker who was in Northern Afghanistan at the time, whom I met once, the two assassins were Saudi Arabian nationals.
To: GOP_Lady
Masoud was a major heroic character in Ken Follett's 1986 book, "Lie Down With Lions". Not a bad story, IMHO.
8 posted on
09/09/2002 9:30:25 PM PDT by
Mr170IQ
To: GOP_Lady
God bless the Afghanis as they mourn their hero and the first victim of our war on terror.
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