Posted on 09/09/2002 3:55:30 PM PDT by GOP_Lady
Edited on 04/22/2004 12:34:40 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Monday: A man holds a portrait of Massood during a memorial ceremony in Mazar-e-Sharif.
KABUL, Afghanistan
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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.
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.
September 9, 2001 - Afghanistan - Opposition's military chief Ahmed Shah Massood injured in bomb explosion
I was under the impression that General Rashid Dostum succeeded Massoud as head of the Northern Alliance. At least its military force.
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.
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