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Interview with Commander Ahmad Shah Massoud

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Date: 8/7/2000
Source: Azadi Afghan Radio

A group of Afghan and foreign journalists accompanied by representatives of the "Women on the Road for Afghanistan" Conference (organized by Paris-based Negar and held in Dushanbe, Tajikistan between June 27-28) traveled to Afghanistan on June 29. The group visited internal refugee camps, educational and social institutions, POW camps and local people during their four-day stay in the Panjshir Valley. This trip coincided with the latest summer Taliban offensive North of Kabul, between June 30 and July 1. On its way to visit schools in UF/ISA territories in Kapisa province, the group encountered hundreds of newly displaced refugees from the Shamali plains fleeing the war zones and documented their stories. On the morning of July 2, the group met with Ahmad Shah Massoud, commander of the Mujahedeen resistance forces in Afghanistan. The following are excerpts of the discussions and question/answer session between the participants, Dr. Maliha Zulfocar, Hassina Sherjan-Samad, Chekeba Hashemi, Manila Khaled, Mary Quinn, Nadjia Bouzeghrane (El Watan daily), Gerard Cardonne, Francoise Causse, Sophie Marsaudon (Radio France International) and Massoud. Recorded by AAR correspondent and Dushanbe Conference delegate Sherjan-Samad.

His Last Interview

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The interview - apparently the last one given by Ahmad Shah Masood, the famous 'Lion of Panjsheer", before his assasination on 2.09.2001 - concerns the historical and ethic background of Afghan civil war, the character of the Taliban rules, possibilities of a compromise with the Taliban, the concept of future democratic Afghan state, the fate of archaeological excavations and historical artefacts in Afghanistan, ethnic complexities of Afghanistan, relations between Afghanistan and Pakistan, US policy in Afghanistan.

Massoud: U.S. forgot its 'moral responsibility' in Afghanistan

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(CNN) -- Ahmed Shah Massoud was one of the most well-known Afghan commanders in the 10-year war against the Soviet Union occupation. He became known as the "Lion of Panjshir" for the battles he led against Soviet troops in the Panjshir Valley.

When the Soviets withdrew in 1989, he emerged as one of the commanders as the former Afghan mujahedeen split into groups and fought a civil war for control of the country. When the fundamentalist Taliban Islamic militia captured Kabul and gain control of most of the country in 1996, Massoud, an ethnic Tajik, fled to the hills of northern Afghanistan. There, he commanded a coalition of ethnic Uzbek and Tajik forces known as the Northern Alliance that control 5 percent of the country and are fighting against the Taliban.

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