For some reason, his "story" was the hardest part of the ABC movie for me.
It was for me too. Mainly because I had already known about the other casualties of the attack in the U.S.
I didn't really know about him until the movie. Also because it really shouldn't have happened, we should have been helping him fight the Taliban long before 2001, and the revelation that the U.S. foreign aid to Afghanistan in the amount of hundreds of millions was going to the Taliban and not the Northern Alliance was infuriating.
It touched me as well. His story demonstrates one of the ugly things about our inconsistent, and to often capricious, foreign policy.
The most unbelieveable part of his story was the intelligence community under Clinton's command didn't deem him credible enough. He was the only reason the Clinton administration knew where UBL was at any given time in Afghanistan. Ever since Massoud was assassinated on September 9, 2001, the intelligence community has been stymied over the whereabouts of UBL.
I agree. And for all the criticism heaped on ABC for 'softening' some of the Clinton scenes, the telling of the story of Massoud and what we lost that day had the most impact on me. I had read a few things about him previously and knew we lost and the Afghanis had lost someone important but I truly mourned this hero's death for the first time last night. Thank you ABC and the makers of this film.