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...Masood Farivar ’94, a former member of the Mujahideen resistance that fought the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan, came to the U.S. for the first time in 1989. After applying to the College, Harvard suggested that he spend a year in an American high school. Farivar attended the Lawrenceville School in New Jersey before applying to Harvard again...
...can’t help wondering if they are referring to Masood,” Heller said in an e-mail...
...This is no way to build a country." WALI MASOOD, brother of late Northern Alliance leader Ahmed Shah Masood, speculating that Afghan President Hamid Karzai discussed with the country's powerful warlords the possibility of offering them positions in a future government in return for their support in upcoming elections...
...Qaeda tribesmen. "Our view is that there are foreign fighters in those tribal areas who will have to be killed or captured," he said. "It's very important that the Pakistani military continue with their operations." In response to Barno's comments, Pakistani Foreign Office spokesman Masood Khan retorted: "We cannot fire on our citizens, and that is why an innovative mechanism [the truce] has been used to resolve the issue...
...that the Pakistani army has stirred the hornet's nest, it is unlikely militants can be caught unawares and captured in their tribal-area hideaways in the foreseeable future. Bin Laden's fighters, says Islamabad-based columnist and retired General Talat Masood, "have almost certainly melted away into the hills." Mohammed, meanwhile, is now a local hero. Mobs of cheering tribesmen gather when his six-vehicle convoy, each auto mounted with machine guns, roars past. "I believe in the concept of jihad," Mohammed told reporters in his village of Shakai after the truce was signed, adding that he still considers...