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Afghanistan
Masood buried
2001-09-17
  • (AP) — Thousands of people gathered Sunday in a small village in Afghanistan's mighty Hindu Kush mountain range to bury opposition leader Ahmed Shah Massood, who died from wounds in a suicide attack against him. Supporters of Massood shouted slogans against the ruling Taliban militia and also condemned Tuesday's terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, which U.S. officials blame on Osama bin Laden, the fugitive terrorist who has been given sanctuary in Afghanistan by the Taliban.

    The opposition is ready to support American actions against the Taliban, said opposition spokesman Dr. Abdullah — who uses only one name — in an interview broadcast on Russia's state RTR television Sunday. "Definitely, we expect a reaction" to the American attacks — "a military reaction," Abdullah said. "I think the aim — the sole purpose of that military reaction — should be destruction of the terrorists' camps," he added. "The whole people here are against the Taliban."

    Massood was buried in his home village of Basarak in the Panjshir Valley, north of Afghanistan's capital, Kabul.
    • Posted by:Fred Pruitt

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