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This article is a compelling read. It talks about how these members of Al Qaeda found a way to get access to Massoud. They did what was spoken about in the Nick Berg Tape–they killed him…with patience. Over time, after staying with Massoud’s men for over 20 days, they were given their opportunity for an “interview”, and in that opportunity, they finally were close enough to commit the deadly deed they’d been hired to do.

What is somewhat disturbing, however, is how they paint the Northern Alliance as paranoid liars in this piece.

KABUL, Afghanistan — When Sept. 11 dawned here, charismatic Northern Alliance leader Ahmed Shah Masoud was stashed in a refrigerator at a Tajikistan morgue—killed 48 hours earlier by Al Qaeda assassins. His death was a desperate secret.

A cadre of close aides and officers hid his body—and the truth—while his outnumbered resistance fighters clung to tenuous positions under relentless attack by Taliban and Al Qaeda forces.

WOW. They open the piece up with talking about how they hid Massoud’s body and lied about his condition rather than just coming out and telling people he had been assassinated. And notice how the writers say they were “outnumbered” by Al Qaeda and the Taliban.

Fearing collapse of alliance defenses if word got out, the aides manufactured a fog of disinformation. Hardly anyone was informed—not the field commanders, not even the dead leader’s family.

He suffered an accident—only minor injuries, they said. And for days, those lies kept the resistance intact.

There it is. There’s the bias in the piece–”kept the resistance intact”. The resistance to the Taliban and Al Qaeda, heh? This same inflammatory rhetoric was apparent during the trial of Task Force Sabre/7.

I’m not certain as to the reliability of this, but it certainly doesn’t paint the NA in a favorable light, which isn’t surprising, really. It seems as though the media looks down their noses at the forces of the NA and would rather portray despicable murderers and tyrants as elitist heroes.

If you put together the chronology of Jack having worked with and protected Massoud, then how could you possibly come to the conclusion that he cooked up some hair brained scheme about taxicabs in order to go to Afghanistan? Massoud was murdered just a few days before the September 11 attacks. Think about it.

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