CAS IR 573 Lecture Notes - Lecture 52: Ahmad Shah Massoud
12 May 2019
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9/11, 2001 2 moroccans interview ahmad shah masoud (backbone of. Qaeda terrorists under the order of osama bin laden and this was the signal for the the twin tower attack. Al qaeda knew that twin tower attack would lead to american retaliation and this would be in sync with the afghan government and so to weaken the government they preemptively took out ahmad shah masoud. If the attack on twin tower didn"t happen, the taliban would have had full control over afghanistan in a few weeks. The us government asked taliban to hand over al qaeda and. Taliban does not hand over osama bin laden. Resulting in us attack in afghanistan in the name of self- defense, the entire world agrees. Attacks on us embassy in kenya before the attack. New york was not al qaeda"s first action. The taliban are outed and in late 2001 a new government is put in.
