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20 years after the assassination of Commander Massoud: Open letter to President Emmanuel Macron

20 years after the assassination of Commander Massoud: Open letter to President Emmanuel Macron

Dear Mr. President,
Let’s not abandon Afghanistan again!
At the end of November 1998, three years before his trip to Europe, Commander Massoud, entrenched in northern Afghanistan, besieged on all sides by the Pakistan-backed Taliban, wrote me a long text.
Five pages in which he explained the dramatic situation in his country, the yoke that women were under, the danger that the Taliban represented for the whole world, the threat of Al-Qaeda, the urgency of helping it. He also denounced Pakistan’s role in the war. All these accusations and warnings were repeated, almost word for word, in April 2001 before the European Parliament.

 

September 9, 2001, the longest day in contemporary history

September 9, 2001, the longest day in contemporary history

War against terror did not start on September 11 in New York. It actually started two days earlier in an Afghan village no one ever heard about.