Hand It to the Warlords --- Masoud: From warrior to statesman

https://www.unz.com/pescobar/hand-it-to-the-warlords/ 

 

LinkBookmarkIn May 2003, Taliban guerrillas were ripping in south and southeast Afghanistan, al-Qaeda was alive and kicking along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border and President Hamid Karzai could barely enforce his writ outside of Kabul.

 https://asiatimes.com/2001/09/masoud-from-warrior-to-statesman/

 

Note: Pepe Escobar’s interview with Ahmad Shah Masoud was held not long before an assassination attempt was made on the leader of the Afghani forces fighting the Taliban. Masoud was being interviewed on Sunday by two Arab journalists in northern Takhar province near his home when a bomb concealed in a video camera exploded. The Arabs were killed, and reports vary on the extent of injuries suffered by Masoud.