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  • Former Afghan president survives attack

    03/12/2006 3:21:49 AM PST · by PrinceOfCups · 174+ views
    Gulf News ^ | March 12, 2006 | Agencies
    Kabul: A former Afghan president survived a suicide attack on Sunday in Kabul, a senior police official said. Senior police officer Zalmai Oryakhel said the attack was aimed at Sibghatullah Mojadidi, who heads a commission aiming to persuade the Taliban to give up insurgency. Mojadidi was being driven in a car heading towards the city centre when a pick-up truck drove near and exploded. At least two people, including the suicide car bomber, were killed in the blast. Oryakhel said police suspected that an Al Qaida militant allied to the Taliban rebels had carried out the attack, which also wounded...
  • Ahmad Shah Massood (1953- September 9, 2001)

    09/09/2004 11:51:32 AM PDT · by Shermy · 8 replies · 1,736+ views
    Afgha.com ^ | September 9, 2004 | Sunil Sainis/Laxman Bahroo
    War brutalizes man, every afghan bears living testimony to this. If the landscape of Afghanistan bears the craters of the endless war, the political and military leadership in Afghanistan also carries war's indelible scars. It is important never to lose sight of this. Ahmed Shah Mas'ud was born to an army family in 1953 in the Panjshir Valley north of the Afghan capital Kabul. His father was a colonel in the Afghan Army and enrolled his son at Kabul's Lycee Istiqlal High School. Upon graduation Mas'ud joined Kabul's Polytechnic Institute. In 1973 King Zahir Shah was deposed and exiled by...