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...journalists"' first question was: "If you recapture all of Afghanistan, what will be your attitude to Osama bin Laden?" They didn't wait for an answer. One of the two French-speaking North African men detonated a powerful bomb, killing himself instantly and fatally wounding the man they had journeyed across the globe to meet: Ahmad Shah Massoud, leader of the ragtag Northern Alliance that is fighting a civil war against the ruling Taliban militia. Immediately, the finger of suspicion pointed to Osama bin Laden, the Saudi terrorist sheltered by the Taliban. But two days later the explosion...
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...Many analysts suspect the attack on Massoud was a preemptive strike by bin Laden: anticipating retaliation against Afghanistan in the wake of the World Trade Center and Pentagon attacks, he had sought to deprive the U.S. of a powerful prospective ally. (Although Massoud's forces had initially insisted that he was alive in the face of contrary intelligence, on Saturday a spokesman finally confirmed that Massoud had died from wounds suffered in the attack.) A second theory posits that, by presenting the Taliban with the gift of Massoud's head before unleashing the carnage in America, bin Laden had buttressed...
...serve to remove the anti-Taliban alliance as a military force. If the intention was to rob America of an ally, it would have made more sense to first allow the Taliban time to militarily exploit the assassination before the U.S. and NATO could prop up the alliance. And bin Laden hardly needs to cement an already cozy relationship with the Taliban. Since 1996, he has supplied the Afghan militia with both funds and firepower. Among a Taliban foreign legion of some 10,000 is a powerful and still growing contingent of 2,500 to 3,000 Arabs personally loyal...
...resistance against Soviet occupation, earning the title "Lion of Panjshir" for doggedly defending the valley. For years he complained about Washington's reluctance to rein in Pakistan's covert military support for the Taliban. "We have told Western countries again and again of the dangers of Taliban extremism, of bin Laden and his terrorists," he recently told TIME at his headquarters. In recent years, however, he came to be seen in some Western circles as a leader who could challenge not only the Taliban but perhaps also deliver bin Laden to justice. His assailant was not the only one asking...