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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (3648)	9/14/2001 5:17:49 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Read Replies (1) of 23908

Terrorist Masood was no softie... news.bbc.co.uk Excerpt: Soviet war A follower of radical Islamic politics as a young man, Ahmed Shah Masood went on to become one of the most successful Mujahadeen commanders in the fight against the Soviet invasion of the 1980s. After the Mujahadeen captured the Afghan capital, Kabul, in 1992, he was appointed defence minister. There were many allegations at the time of corruption and cronyism in his ministry. The government was to fall apart anyway as the various factions fought a bitter internecine war for control of Kabul. Commander Masood's Jamiat-i-Islami, like the others, rocketed civilian areas causing massive destruction. Tens of thousands of people died in the bombardments or fled the city. [snip] _____________ Note that the BBC report was written PRIOR to the Sept 11 attacks...

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