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- Ahmad_Shah_Massoud abstract "Ahmad Shah Massoud (Persian: احمد شاه مسعود; September 2, 1953 – September 9, 2001) was an Afghan political and military leader, who was a central figure in the resistance against the Soviet occupation between 1979 and 1989 and in the following years of civil war. He was assassinated on September 9, 2001.Massoud came from an ethnic Tajik, Sunni Muslim background from the Panjshir valley in northern Afghanistan. He studied engineering at Kabul University in the 1970s, where he became involved with Muslim anti-communist movements around Burhanuddin Rabbani. After the Soviet occupation of 1979, his role as an insurgence leader earned him the nickname of "Lion of Panjshir" (شیر پنجشیر). In 1992, he was appointed as the minister of defense through the Peshawar Accord, a peace and power-sharing agreement, in the post-communist Islamic State of Afghanistan—a position he held until 2001. He fought against an alliance of militias led by Gulbuddin Hekmatyar and eventually the Taliban, who started to lay siege to the capital in January 1995.Following the rise of the Taliban in 1996, Massoud, who rejected the Taliban's fundamentalist interpretation of Islam, returned to the armed opposition. He served as the military and political leader of the United Islamic Front (also known in the West as Northern Alliance). He was assassinated, probably at the instigation of al-Qaeda, in a suicide bombing on September 9, 2001, just two days before the September 11 attacks in theUnited States, which led to the U.S. and NATO to intervene in Afghanistan, allying with Massoud's forces.Massoud was posthumously named "National Hero" by the order of Afghan President Hamid Karzai. The date of his death, September 9, is observed as a national holiday known as "Massoud Day" in Afghanistan. His followers call him Āmir Sāhib-e Shahīd (امیر صاحب شهید, "Our Beloved Martyred Commander").".
- Ahmad_Shah_Massoud alias "Lion of Panjshir".
- Ahmad_Shah_Massoud battle Civil_war_in_Afghanistan_(1996%E2%80%932001).
- Ahmad_Shah_Massoud battle Soviet_war_in_Afghanistan.
- Ahmad_Shah_Massoud birthDate "1953-09-02".
- Ahmad_Shah_Massoud birthPlace Afghanistan.
- Ahmad_Shah_Massoud birthPlace Bazarak,_Panjshir.
- Ahmad_Shah_Massoud birthYear "1953".
- Ahmad_Shah_Massoud deathDate "2001-09-09".
- Ahmad_Shah_Massoud deathPlace Kingdom_of_Afghanistan.
- Ahmad_Shah_Massoud deathPlace Takhar_Province.
- Ahmad_Shah_Massoud deathYear "2001".
- Ahmad_Shah_Massoud militaryBranch Afghan_Armed_Forces.
- Ahmad_Shah_Massoud militaryBranch Mujahideen.
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- Ahmad_Shah_Massoud militaryCommand "Defense Minister of Afghanistan and commander of the anti-Taliban United Islamic Front".
- Ahmad_Shah_Massoud militaryCommand "Prominent Mujahideen commander during the Soviet war in Afghanistan".
- Ahmad_Shah_Massoud serviceEndYear "2001".
- Ahmad_Shah_Massoud serviceStartYear "1978".
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- Ahmad_Shah_Massoud almaMater Kabul_University.
- Ahmad_Shah_Massoud alternativeNames "Lion of Panjshir".
- Ahmad_Shah_Massoud awards "National Hero of Afghanistan".
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- Ahmad_Shah_Massoud battles "Afghan Civil War".
- Ahmad_Shah_Massoud birthDate "1953-09-02".
- Ahmad_Shah_Massoud birthPlace Bazarak,_Panjshir.
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- Ahmad_Shah_Massoud branch "Afghan military".
- Ahmad_Shah_Massoud branch "Mujahideen".
- Ahmad_Shah_Massoud branch "United Islamic Front".
- Ahmad_Shah_Massoud commands "Defense Minister of Afghanistan and commander of the anti-Taliban United Islamic Front".
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- Ahmad_Shah_Massoud dateOfBirth "1953-09-02".
- Ahmad_Shah_Massoud dateOfDeath "2001-09-09".
- Ahmad_Shah_Massoud deathDate "2001-09-09".
- Ahmad_Shah_Massoud deathPlace Islamic_State_of_Afghanistan.
- Ahmad_Shah_Massoud deathPlace Takhar_Province.
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- Ahmad_Shah_Massoud name "Ahmad Shah Massoud".
- Ahmad_Shah_Massoud name "Massoud, Ahmad Shah".
- Ahmad_Shah_Massoud nickname ""Lion of Panjshir"".
- Ahmad_Shah_Massoud placeOfBirth Afghanistan.
- Ahmad_Shah_Massoud placeOfBirth Bazarak,_Panjshir.
- Ahmad_Shah_Massoud placeOfDeath "Takhar Province, Afghanistan".
- Ahmad_Shah_Massoud rank Commander.
- Ahmad_Shah_Massoud rank Defence_minister.
- Ahmad_Shah_Massoud rank Vice_president.
- Ahmad_Shah_Massoud religion Islam.
- Ahmad_Shah_Massoud serviceyears "1978".
- Ahmad_Shah_Massoud shortDescription "Afghan military leader".
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- Ahmad_Shah_Massoud years "June 1992 – September 2001".
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