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Ahmed Shah Massoud: Governments
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At the beginning of 1375, (1996) Massoud went without company[27] to Maydan Shahr, Hekmatyar’s former stronghold, in order to induce the Taliban, which were represented by Mullah Rabani, to end the war. It was decided there, that the representatives of the Taliban should come to Kabul, to confer about the differences between the government and the Taliban and to find a possible solution. That happened and the decision was made those 40 representatives of the clergy, who should represent the government, should again meet with 40 representatives of the Taliban for further and more comprehensive consultation. The government expressed its readiness repeatedly, but without any reaction from the Taliban. Instead, they started their massive offensive against the government and against Kabul. The fact that Massoud had been able to leave their camp alive was very much regretted by the Taliban’s leadership.
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Massoud agreed but said he needed financial help. He would have to purchase fresh ammunition and winter clothing for his troops. He needed to move villagers away from the area of the attacks so they would not be vulnerable to retaliation from government forces. To pay for all this, Massoud wanted a large payment over and above his monthly CIA stipend. Schroen and the commander agreed on a one-time lump sum of $500,000 in cash. Schroen soon delivered the money by hand to Massoud's brother in Peshawar.
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After the collapse of the Communist regime in 1992, it was Massoud who captured Kabul and facilitated the establishment of the first mujahidin Islamic government. But he could neither unite Afghanistan's ethnically and tribally divided society nor stop Pakistan's "creeping invasion" of Afghanistan in pursuit of its regional ambitions, first through the extremist mujahidin leader Gulbuddin Hekmatyar and then the Taliban.
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Massoud tried everything to get Hekmatyar not to shoot on the civilian population of the city but only on military positions. However, since Pakistan knew that Massoud was not to be defeated militarily, its government continued with its inhumane policy. One year later Hekmatyar made Massoud‘s resignation the condition for the end of the war. Massoud consented, which did not entail ... under any circumstances an end of the attacks on the part of the Hezb-e Islami, Hekmatyar’s party.
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The former minister of defense under the government of President Burhanuddin Rabbani from 1992 to 1996, Massoud currently heads the Northern Alliance, Afghanistan's main rebel faction. But the group's control of the country has shrunk to a small section of northern Afghanistan.
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Later, during a tea-and-cookies reception, a former Massoud confidant was more blunt. Unless the Americans help defeat the Taliban and their allies, the insurgency will spread to other nations in the region, said Abdullah, a former foreign minister in the Karzai government who uses one name.
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