Commander Ahmad Massoud
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And that's exactly what I do beside that, that I know you.
So this was not a question of risk or worry.
So this was all just fine.
Well, first and foremost, my father has been always very much famous for being a military genius.
He managed to withstand multiple major attacks by the Russians and managed to withstand against the might of global terrorism.
and he managed to bring unity against such sort of chaos.
And he was the centerpiece in fighting against the Soviet and fighting against the terrorism.
In Afghanistan, he's very much famous for being the national hero of Afghanistan, the saving country multiple times from such invasions, from such chaos and crises.
However, at the same time, he proved to be a very political genius too, that his decisions, his foresight, for example, knowing what would happen with 9-11, for example, but months before this,
He warned United States of America and he warned the world that the issue of Afghanistan would reach to the soil of America and it would be catastrophic and exactly that happened.
So his foresight, his charisma, his honesty to his people and his devotion that he never
allowed himself to leave his country and he was ready and ultimately he did, you know, give the ultimate price, which was giving his own life.
So that devotion and that sort of charisma and that love for his country and that hard work is something that created
not just a legacy of a genius, but a legacy of hope.
So what I can basically conclude is that my father was a symbol of hope for his people.
And his values was to the extent that people who were his enemies, like Russian generals, they admired them.
His enemies admired him and his fame and his sort of love went all the way from Argentina to South Korea to Japan to across the world that the people who got to know him, they fell in love with that idea, with his cause and his determination to follow those values.
He was a man of principle.
Of course.
Al-Qaeda had a plan to take over Afghanistan.