Tribute Paid to Hero of Resistance Slain in 2001
More than 2,000 people gathered at a hilltop mausoleum in Afghanistan’s Panjshir Valley to mark the second anniversary of the assassination of Ahmed Shah Masoud, the Northern Alliance leader killed by suspected Al Qaeda operatives two days before the Sept. 11 attacks.
In Kabul, the capital, President Hamid Karzai joined about 15,000 people in a somber tribute at a stadium.
Masoud fought against the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan in the 1980s and then led the northern-based opposition forces that battled the Taliban regime in the late 1990s.
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