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To: GUSTAVE JAEGER who wrote (3669)	9/14/2001 11:55:20 AM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 23908

The guy was snuffed out on Sunday 9th... Are you sure of this? I have seen conflicting reports. Tim

To: GUSTAVE JAEGER who wrote (3669)	9/14/2001 12:22:46 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 23908

Actually, they're not confirming his death yet... afghanradio.com Opposition Afghan commander's health growing worse: aide DUSHANBE, Sept 14 (AFP) - The Afghan opposition said Friday that its commander Ahmad Shah Masood's health was growing worse by the hour, but dismissed persistent reports that the Northern Alliance leader was dead. "Masood's health has deteriorated since yesterday (Thursday) evening as a results of the injuries that he suffered Sunday," said Mohammad Saleh Registani, the military attache of the Afghan government in exile in Russia, in a telephone interview from the Tajik capital. Registani offered no further details and failed to specify Masood's current location. Masood, 49, was reported in "very critical" condition Thursday. He was the target of an assassination plot carried out by two Arabs posing as journalists who detonated a bomb during an interview Sunday. Meanwhile diplomats and secret service agents from India, Iran, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan held closed-door consultations to assess the military situation in the event that Masood should die. Tajik security officials said no official document was adopted following the meeting on Thursday, but that all involved agreed to further support the opposition Northern Alliance. Masood's aides have so far denied that a permanent successor had been named to head the Northern Alliance, which controls only a sliver of land in northern portions of Afghanistan. Masood's deputy, General Mohammad Fakhim, has been named as a temporary commander of the Alliance, officials here said. Masood's troops hold the strategic Panjshir valley north of Kabul, as well as rugged mountainous country in the far northeast, where they are the last obstacle to the Taliban claiming control of all of Afghanistan. The military strategist is believed to be the lynchpin of the fragile opposition alliance. He shot to prominence as he repulsed waves of Red Army assaults in the Panjshir during the 1979-89 Soviet invasion. Now backed by Russia, India and some Central Asian states, the absence of Masood from the scene could lead to the disintegration of the loose coalition of forces struggling to deny the Taliban outright control of the country.