Ahmad Shah Massoud
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Ahmad Shah Massoud was an Afghan military leader and politician. Known as the "Lion of Panjshir", he was the foremost commander of the Afghan mujahideen against Soviet occupation during the Soviet–Afg
Massoud in 2001
View of Panjshir Valley from Massoud's Tomb
Massoud with President of the European Parliament Nicole Fontaine in April 2001
Afghan National Army honouring Massoud's resistance at his tomb and memorial in September 2010
On 9 September 2001, Ahmad Shah Massoud was assassinated by two al-Qaeda operatives posing as journalists in Khwaja Bahauddin District, Takhar Province, Afghanistan.
Ahmad Shah Massoud
…military wing against rival militias, and actively fought against the Taliban and their allies, from the time the regime rose to power in 1996, and until his assassination in 2001. Massoud came from a Tajik Sunni Muslim background in the Panjshir Valley in northern Afghanistan. He began studying engineering at Polytechnical…
Tomb of Ahmad Shah Massoud in 2011
Massoud (centre) giving a press conference at the European Parliament on 5 April 2001
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