Commander Ahmad Massoud
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And that's exactly what happened.
I knew that it is happening on September, 1st of September.
I was aware when it was announced, but before that I didn't know about the exact date.
But I knew in my heart that 2021 was a devastating year for people of Afghanistan.
Not just France, many countries they offered.
Well, I remembered.
the faces that I looked at those eyes and faces and told them about freedom, about my father, about democracy, about human rights, about women's rights, about fighting terrorism.
How could I just leave them after all those things I was preaching to them?
And what would I do outside?
I gave it a very hard thought.
nights before the collapse, and I knew it would happen.
And just like my father, I was prepared to give the ultimate sacrifice.
To be very frank, because I knew how everything is completely gone and how Taliban will be left with billions of dollars of equipment.
And at the end, it will be a valley against basically a country.
And all odds would be pointing out to our demise and our death.
I just didn't want to be alive to see my country go this path.
But unfortunately, that didn't happen.
And I was alive.
I get to see what happened, which is heartbreaking and a much bigger pain to me than death occurred to me, which is witnessing my country going to this situation.
But in my opinion, because I believe I am a man of God and I believe in God, I believe that he kept us alive for a reason.