Assassinated Afghan People: Assassinated Afghan Journalists, Assassinated Afghan Politicians, Ahmad Shah Massoud, Mohammed Daoud Khan

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 24. Chapters: Assassinated Afghan journalists, Assassinated Afghan politicians, Ahmad Shah Massoud, Mohammed Daoud Khan, Hafizullah Amin, Abdul Qadir, Abdullah Wardak, Meena Keshwar Kamal, Malalai Kakar, Habibullah Khan, Sitara Achakzai, Mohammad Omar, Hakim Taniwal, Janullah Hashimzada, Abdul Samad Rohani, Abdul Rahman, Abdul Sabur Farid Kohistani, Abdul Ahad Karzai, Hajji Muhammad Arif Zarif, Mohammed Islam Mohammadi, Mohammad Khaksar, Sahib Rahman, Sayed Mustafa Kazemi, Abdul Samad Khaksar, Zakia Zaki, Mirwais Sadiq, Muhammad Ali Jalali. Excerpt: Ahmad Shah Massoud ( - A mad h Mas' d; September 2, 1953 - September 9, 2001) was a Kabul University engineering student turned military leader who played a leading role in driving the Soviet army out of Afghanistan, earning him the name Lion of Panjshir. His followers call him mir S hib-e Shah d (Our Beloved Martyred Commander). A devout Sunni Muslim reportedly also always carrying a book of Sufi mystic Ghazali with him, he strongly rejected the interpretations of Islam followed by the Taliban, Al Qaeda or the Saudi establishment. His followers not only saw him as a military commander but also as a spiritual leader. Following the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan the Wall Street Journal named Massoud the Afghan who won the Cold War. After the collapse of the communist Soviet-backed government of Mohammad Najibullah in 1992, Massoud became the Minister of Defense under the government of Burhanuddin Rabbani. Following the rise of the Taliban in 1996, Massoud returned to the role of an armed opposition leader, serving as the military commander and political leader of the United Islamic Front (also known in the West as Northern Alliance). On September 9, 2001, two days before the September 11 attacks in the United States, Massoud was assassinated in Takhar Pr...