2 Days Before 9/11, Al Qaeda Killed Osama Bin Laden’s Biggest Taliban Rival
The killing of Ahmad Shah Massoud on September 9, 2001, removed one of the Taliban’s strongest rivals days before the 9/11 attacks. The assassination was believed to have been carried out at the behest of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden as a favour to his Taliban hosts. According to Newsweek, Massoud, who led Afghanistan’s…