Ahmad shah massoud — badass of the week

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Before he could answer a question, they detonated explosives that investigators said later had been cunningly disguised in their camera equipment. Twenty years on , Massoud's assassination and the September 11 attacks on the United States are for many Afghans the twin cataclysms that started yet another era of uncertainty and bloodshed - and which continue to reverberate following the Taliban's return.

The charismatic Massoud, known as the Lion of Panjshir after his native valley, built his name during the s as a brilliant guerrilla commander repelling Soviet forces. By the late s, he was fighting the Taliban - and their Al-Qaeda allies. The assassins pretended to be filming a documentary, and secured the Massoud interview by presenting a concocted back story printed on a letterhead from an Islamic centre in Britain.

They used stolen Belgian passports to travel.