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Ahmed Shah Massoud: United States
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Massoud was the victim of a suicide attack which occurred on September 9, 2001, two days before the September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attack in the United States. Two Arabs with stolen Belgian passports posed as journalists and set off a bomb hidden in a video camera. He died a few days later.
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Massoud was a hero in the struggle against Soviet domination of Afghanistan and later the Taliban regime, but he was kept mostly at arm's length by the United States. The CIA, although eager to help topple the Soviets, had an on-again, off-again relationship with Massoud, preferring sometimes to back rivals favored by ally Pakistan.
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Representatives of the Afghan government-in-exile had been insisting last week that Massoud survived the attack. Regional analyst, Ahmed Rashid, believes this was merely a stalling tactic while anti-Taleban forces decided their next move. "When you lose someone of such legendary stature as Massoud, it is going to be very difficult to recover from the shock," he said.
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Still, if it was a beginning, Massoud's advisers thought, it was a very small one. They were in a brutal, unfinished war and felt abandoned by the United States. They needed supplies, political support, and strong public denunciations of the Taliban. Instead, the CIA proposed a narrow collaboration on Stinger missile recovery.
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Over the next three days, Atta, Waleed Alshehri and Al-Shehhi wire $15,000 in unused funds to al-Qaeda financier Mustafa Muhammed Ahmed in the United Arab Emirates. Atta sends money from Maryland before flying to Boston.
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