The roar of the two helicopters fades away.
Several journalists arrived to interview the "
lion of Panchir
", Ahmad Chah Massoud, who has been fighting the Taliban from his stronghold in northeastern Afghanistan since 1996. On September 9, 2001, two men, a journalist and a cameraman, met pass off as Belgians of Moroccan origin, employees of the
Arabic News International
channel
(ANI-TV).
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“
They seemed normal, nothing suggested that they were terrorists, they weren't even bearded,
” recalls Brigitte Brault, at the time a journalist for TV5 Monde.
In reality, Dahmane Abd El-Sattar and Bouraoui El-Ouaer, are Tunisian minions in the pay of Al-Qaeda, the sworn enemy of Commander Massoud.
They set up their cameras, then ask "
If you were in power in Kabul, what would you do with Mr. Bin Laden?"
".
Massoud laughs, and the cameraman lifts his shirt to activate his explosive belt, hitting him in the face.
His sidekick tries to
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