Assassination of Ahmad Shah Massoud
2001 murder in Takhar, Afghanistan
Assassination of Ahmad Shah Massoud
On 9 September 2001, Ahmad Shah Massoud was assassinated by two al-Qaeda operatives posing as journalists in Khwaja Bahauddin District, Takhar Province, Afghanistan. Massoud, a pivotal guerilla fighter nicknamed the "Lion of Panjshir", had led insurgent forces against the governments of Daoud Khan, communist government under the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA), invading Soviet forces, and the late 1990s Taliban regime. At the time of his assassination, Massoud commanded the forces of the Northern Alliance, backed primarily by Iran and Tajikistan, fighting against Taliban forces, backed by Pakistan. Massoud remained a vocal critic of Pakistani interference in Afghanistan (through the Taliban) and Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda in Afghanistan, including publicly warning U.S. president George W. Bush five months prior to 9/11 that the situation in Afghanistan, if unresolved, "will also affect the United States and a lot of other countries". Shortly after a press conference in the...
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