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[Minstrel Boy]

September 9: the assassination of Northern Alliance leader Ahmed Shah Masoud. Pakistan's ISI, patron of the Taliban and Central Asian proxy of the CIA, is rumoured to have played a role. Killing Masoud just two days before 9/11 is highly suspicious, and convenient for the US:

"A 2002 Asia Times Online investigation would later establish that Masoud was killed as a gift from al-Qaeda to the Taliban, with heavy involvement by Abdul Sayyaf, an Afghan mujahideen commander very close to the ISI and the Saudis. From Washington's perspective, this was also a gift. Masoud was the crucial Afghan nationalist leader, supported by Russia and Iran; after the Taliban being smashed he would never have accepted a feeble, US-sponsored, Hamid Karzai-style government."
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Front_Page/FD08Aa01.html