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Ahmed Shah Massoud: Ahmad Shah Massoud
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Ahmad Shah Massoud was born 10.06.1332 (01.09.1953)[2] in Jangalak[3]/ Panjsher[5]as son of police commander Dost Mohammad Khan. At the age of five, he started grammar school at Bazarak and stayed there until second grade. Since his father was promoted to be police chief of Herat, he attended 3rd and 4th grade at the Mowaffaq School in Herat. He ... got religious education at the so-called Masjed-e-Jame"[6] mosque in Herat. Later his father was moved to Kabul so he attended intermediate and senior grades at the Isteqlaal School in Kabul.
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A source in the Afghan embassy in neighbouring Tajikistan reported that Ahmad Shah Massoud, the leader of the anti-Taliban resistance in Afghanistan, was injured when a bomb concealed in the video camera of an Arab journalist went off. From Ahmed Rashid in Lahore.
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The Perfect Storm author spent a month with anti-Taliban warrior Ahmad Shah Massoud in 2000. Now he offers his reaction to the recent murder of the Northern Alliance leaderand the subsequent attacks on the U.S.
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