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To: Elmer Flugum who wrote (12660)	3/15/2002 6:26:49 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 23908

Even more fascinating than that story about Israeli art students is the story --or rather the stories-- about Massoud's assassination: nationalgeographic.com Excerpt: On September 9, 2001, suicide bombers killed Massoud. Two days later the U.S. was under attack. Here Junger offers his thoughts on those two days of terror and their implications. THE ASSASSINATION On the morning of September 9, 2001, guerrilla leader Ahmad Shah Massoud sat down with two reporters at his base in Khvajeh Baha od Din, in northern Afghanistan, to give one more interview about the unending civil war in his country. The two men were apparently from North Africa-Algeria, Morocco, or Tunisia, no one seems to know for sure-and said they worked for an Arab news agency. They had been at Khvajeh Baha od Din for more than a week, keeping to themselves, eating the rice and mutton provided for them, waiting for Massoud. They had a TV camera, but no one thought to inspect it, and they came recommended by people within Massoud's own government. Just before noon, with Massoud seated before them, they started the interview. Seconds later everyone in the room was either wounded or dead. The attackers had packed the camera with explosives and blown themselves up. Nothing remained of one but his legs; the other was killed as he fled. Massoud was horribly wounded but still alive. His men tried to rush him to a helicopter for the short flight to Tajikistan, but he survived only 15 minutes. Ahmad Shah Massoud-hero of the war against the Soviets, implacable foe of the Taliban regime-passed from this life in the back of a battered Land Cruiser, racing through the mountains of Afghanistan. It was a sadly fitting end for a man whose life had been entirely dominated by war. [...] ________________________ Got the discrepancies? The idea of a camera-bomb is so ludicrous that a new, "enhanced" version has already been circulated: the explosives were hidden in the battery-belt strapped on one of the "journalists"... However, one of them managed to rescue himself from the blast: "Nothing remained of one but his legs; the other was killed as he fled." His luck was brief, though... For the record, my pet theory is that the Tunisian stoolies had merely been carrying a GPS-camcorder. As soon as the Russian military pinpointed Massoud's whereabouts, they just swooped down on him and blasted the whole area... Anyway, it's interesting to read that the two Tunisian stoolies were recommended by other North Alliance brass... Looks like a Russian-Tajik conspiracy to bump off Massoud --why? Was he the weakest link in the 911 operation??