Ahmad Shah Massoud person
also: M-O-U-S-A-D, Masad, Ahmed Shah Masad, Ahmed Mossad, Massoud, General Dostrum
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Ahmad Shah Massoud member_of
Afghanistan host_asserted
“fundamentalist force arose. The Taliban conquered Kabul and most of the country. Massoud, now allied with the former general Dost, fought on. Before long, they got help from basically all of the parties because they were all stealing each o…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 42 (44) @ 4:34
CIA funded
Ahmad Shah Massoud host_asserted
“He was the most, he was part of the Northern Alliance. He was the most effective fighter of all of them. And the CIA and the ISI would not help him at all. The CIA got weapons wherever it could. Most of these from European and Middle Easter…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 40 (42) @ 1:03:21
CIA assassinated
Ahmad Shah Massoud host_asserted
“He walks into his facility and basically kills him. And with that, the entire Northern Alliance after that struggled. So the CIA didn't want them to win. They killed the one guy that could have made short work of the Soviets coming across t…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Afghanistan @ 36:28
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▶ 35:33
religious zealots, crazies. And of course, the one leader, and I don't know where his, I'll come across his name in a minute. That was the bright, I think it's, it's like, I don't know if it's pronounced Mossad. It's M-O-U-S-A-D or somethin…
▶ 36:00
He was like the bright light in the Northern Alliance, the guy that was a natural leader and was someone that would have restored hope and inspiration had he lasted through this setup. But he didn't. The CIA dressed up a quote unquote repor…
▶ 36:28
He walks into his facility and basically kills him. And with that, the entire Northern Alliance after that struggled. So the CIA didn't want them to win. They killed the one guy that could have made short work of the Soviets coming across t…
▶ 1:02:26
The amounts of cash and weapons given to each group varied depending on performance, but only two of the seven key groups in the rebel alliance were not fundamentalists. The ISI played favorites. One major rebel leader, Masad, Ahmed Shah Ma…
▶ 1:02:50
was not in the alliance. The net effect was that roughly two thirds of the aid went to the most radical religious groups. And the Mossad guy that wasn't part of this alliance was the one guy that wasn't keen on having opium as their main pr…
▶ 3:33
primacy in addition to political power. Ahmed Mossad and Gulbuddin Hekmarda became enemies because Hekmarda is the one that the CIA and ISI, Pakistan, was funding. And the Mossad guy was the one that was the better fighter, but they would g…
▶ 4:34
fundamentalist force arose. The Taliban conquered Kabul and most of the country. Massoud, now allied with the former general Dost, fought on. Before long, they got help from basically all of the parties because they were all stealing each o…
▶ 43:21
coup attempts began to mount and civil war between Dostrum and Massoud's forces. And Massoud is the guy that's up in the north that the CIA refused to ever fund because in my assessment, he's the good guy. He was the most competent warlord …
▶ 43:45
And the CIA had, that was kind of like their one thing with the, and the ISI hated him because he was a nationalist. So not surprising that he didn't get along with Dostrom at all. By the time Kabul fell in, let's see, in 92, there were new…
▶ 35:20
You know, because they're never retired. He then presided over the agency's establishing two field teams. Alpha worked the northwest under General Dostrum and were supposed to be supporting the Afghans to break through to Kabul. Both were s…