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To: NickSE who wrote (7312)	9/9/2003 4:54:11 PM
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Thousands of Afghans Mark Assassination nytimes.com PANJSHIR VALLEY, Afghanistan (AP) -- Thousands gathered Tuesday at a hilltop mausoleum to mark the anniversary of the assassination of Ahmed Shah Massood, the Northern Alliance leader whose death was seen as the first al-Qaida salvo in the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States. In Kabul, Afghan President Hamid Karzai and other dignitaries joined about 15,000 people in the somber tribute at the heavily guarded sports stadium, praising the anti-Taliban fighter as a hero, a martyr and a brother. Known as the ``Lion of Panjshir,'' Massood fought against the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan in the 1980s and then led the northern-based forces that battled the Taliban in the late 1990s. The alliance swept to power in late 2001 -- after Massood's death -- following a U.S.-backed military campaign to topple the hardline Islamic regime that had sheltered Osama bin Laden and his al-Qaida network. At the domed mausoleum, near his home village of Jangalak in the Panjshir Valley, about 90 miles north of Kabul, more than 2,000 people gathered to offer prayers and wreathes. Among them were schoolgirls who had walked six miles to see the tomb. They carried banners that read, ``Osama, you martyred our hero!'' and ``Death to Osama!'' cont'd.....