September 9 2001, Commander Ahmad Sha Massoud, the Lion of Panjshir, the Charismatic leader of the Northern Alliance that was fighting the Taliban regime in Afghanistan, was assassinated by two suicide bombers posing as journalists and commandeered by both the Talibans and Bin Laden. Two days later, the two towers of World Trade Center were collapsing in the streets of New York. Two months later, a US backed Afghan Northern Alliance was routing the Talibans and taking Kabul.

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