Commander Ahmad Massoud

And ultimately, their goal was to expand their sort of government across the globe and have that, which is against all the values of Islam, their Islamic Khilafah, which is something they wanted.

And they found out that there is an obstacle underway.

To do it, they needed a territory.

And the best territory was a war-torn country called Afghanistan, that they have already been there for many years because of fighting against the Soviets.

So they felt this war-torn country is the best place that they can explore, expand, and train, and recruit, and from there, make it a jumping ground, basically, to go to and spread to across the world.

But one thing they didn't realize and they didn't take into account was the presence of a man called Ahmad Shah Massoud that created a resistance against such idea.

And he was a symbol of Muslim moderation, Islamic moderation, which is the majority of Muslims.

that they do not share anything with those extremists like Al-Qaeda and those terrorist groups.

So when he stood against them, he was far more dangerous to Al-Qaeda than America and the others.

Because first, he was representing Islamic majority or majority of Muslims.

Second, he was on the ground fighting against them and he managed to defeat them time after time on battleground.

We had video evidences that you can find it even on YouTube.

of these terrorists, Al-Qaeda terrorists, that we captured them.

And they were detained in our prisons.

And my father had them in his prisons as a proof that Al-Qaeda is alongside Taliban in this fight.

And we had people from Chechnya, people from different part of Africa.

These global terrorism alongside the Taliban, they were fighting against my father.

Yes.

And they did not succeed.

My father with his companion and with the rest of people of Afghanistan, they fought all alone for many years against the Taliban and their allies, which was international terrorism, like Al-Qaeda.