[Pericles]

We needed him! Why did America not help Masood's forces sooner?

[white rose]

Interesting timing, what?

[jonatron]

Previously posted

[Hugin]

Indeed. Massod was the only truly pro-Western Afghan leader. We should have done more to help him.

[GLDNGUN]

We "needed" him? It's too bad he's not still around but I don't see how this hurts our efforts there unless there is absolutely no one to take his place. And if that's the case then his resistance movement couldn't be of much help anyway. No, let's hope this will rally his troops and they will welcome and work with us and be ready to take over the government when we are done with the clean up.

[OldFriend]

Too bad our own national media couldn't find it in their hearts to assassinate bin Laden when they interviewed him recently.

[Phantom Lord]

He has faked his death serveral times before, so who knows what the truth is.

[Redcloak]

We don't need him. All we need are a few pairs of guys with those funny looking keys.

Turning on three... Three, two, one, turn.

[Registered]

Flagus.

[Dog Gone]

Masood was important in that he gave the Taliban fits. But it was a low-grade civil war, and not the kind of thing we are preparing to get involved in. He'll be replaced by someone, and that someone will probably end up running Afghanistan after we're done.

What's left of it, that is....

[StoneColdGOP]

Damn it.

[rightwing2]

We needed him! Why did America not help Masood's forces sooner?

Because Masood was an extremist anti-Western militia leader supported by terrorist state Iran and because if the Northern Alliance returned to power in Afghanistan, they would not be any less anti-American than the Taliban, maybe just a little less militant. If he had been pro-Western, the US would have been supplying him with arms years ago.

[rightwing2]

That being said, I do think that the US and the Russians should coordinate and plan our attacks with the Northern Alliance to defeat the more immediate threat of the Taleban.

[okie_tech]

NOOOOO!!!!!!!!!

[BansheeBill]

There is a good interview with Masood from September of 2000, posted at an international photojournalist's website CLICK HERE

[amom]

I thought you might find this interesting:

From Yahoo.com Pakistan News I believe it is

Saturday September 15, 2:46 PM

Reporters to be taken to Afghanistan to see Masood

DUSHANBE (Reuters) - Afghan opposition officials in Tajikistan have invited journalists to Afghanistan to see opposition guerrilla leader Ahmad Shah Masood, whose fate has remained unknown since an assassination attempt a week ago.

Diplomats from the Afghan embassy in Tajikistan which is controlled by Masood's Northern Alliance did not make clear whether he was alive or dead when they offered to fly the reporters to the Alliance's stronghold in the Panjsher valley.

They were expected to arrive there later on Saturday.

Acting ambassador to Tajikistan Muhdddin Mehdi told Reuters on Friday that Masood was unlikely to recover from wounds sustained in the assassination attempt last Sunday.

The Pakistan-based Afghan Islamic Press (AIP) reported on Friday that Masood had died but a Paris-based spokesman for the Afghan leader said he was still clinging to life.

Masood is the strongest opponent of radical Taliban regime, which controls most of Afghanistan. His condition and the fate of the Alliance have come under the international spotlight amid talk of possible retaliation against the Taliban for hosting Osama bin Laden, linked by U.S. officials to Tuesday's terror attack on the United States.

[vox1138]

Time to replace him and help his opposition force win.

[ChaseR]

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