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Ahmed Shah Massoud: Commanders
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For more than a week Massoud remained poised to move his forces into the capital. He was awaiting the arrival of political leadership from Peshawar. The parties suddenly had sovereign power in their grasp, but no plan for executing it. With his principal commander prepared to occupy Kabul, Rabbani was positioned to prevail by default. Meanwhile UN mediators tried to find a political solution that would assure a transfer of power acceptable to all sides.[17]
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Schroen asked Massoud if he could help develop reliable sources about bin Laden that might benefit them both. The CIA hoped Massoud could reach out to some of the commanders they both knew from the 1980s who were now operating in the eastern areas where bin Laden and his Arab followers had settled. Massoud said he would try. This is a beginning, Schroen told him. He did not have funds at this stage to support these intelligence collection efforts, but he said that others in the CIA would want to follow up and deepen cooperation.
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[F]ar, Massoud's official successor is the alliance's chief of intelligence and security, General Muhammad Fakim. Little is known about him. A competent commander, he is believed to lack Massound's charisma and political experience.
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From that Flame follows the journey of female journalist Michelle Garrett into Afghanistan’s rugged Hindu Kush Mountains as she interviews the legendary Commander Massoud. As the novel progresses, a friendship between the journalist and the Afghan commander grows, giving her a unique perspective into the man the Wall Street Journal credited as “the Afghan who ended the Cold War.”
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Relations with the party headquarters in Peshawar were often strained, as Rabbani insisted on giving Massoud no more weapons and supplies than to other Jamiat commanders, even those who fought little. To compensate for this deficiency, Massoud could rely on the revenue drawn from exports of emeralds[13] and lapis lazuli,[14] that are traditionally exploited in Northern Afghanistan.
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