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...Hazara, the dominant ethnic group here, believe the Taliban had another agenda: to destroy them, too. Of Mongoloid stock, the Hazara have long been the objects of discrimination in Afghanistan, and suffered a terrible massacre in Kabul in 1993 by troops under the late Northern Alliance commander Ahmed Shah Massoud. But they fared even worse under the Taliban. They are Shi'ite Muslims, and therefore heretics to the Taliban. Hazara leaders say the Taliban wanted to exterminate them, and the devastation of the valley lends credence to their claims. But the few Taliban left in the valley, bedraggled prisoners...
...operation to start with, was skeptical of the agency's main scheme: that the U.S. could put its faith--and its people--in the hands of an opposition force that had shown little skill in fighting the Taliban in the past. The Northern Alliance's charismatic leader, Ahmed Shah Massoud, had just been assassinated. The question wasn't whether the U.S. could buy the loyalty of the rebels but whether they would stay bought. It wasn't certain that U.S. troops would be allowed to stage in nearby Tajikistan and Uzbekistan--or whether the Russians would stand...
...Northern Alliance make plans to join in a new ruling coalition for post-Taliban Afghanistan, a fog of mystery has remained over the murder of their onetime leader. But as first reported on TIME.com French police have learned the identity of one of the two assassins of Ahmed Shah Massoud, the former commander of the Northern Alliance, who was slain by two suicide bombers posing as journalists on Sept. 9. The alleged killer is Abedessatar Dahman, a Tunisian who immigrated to Belgium and became part of a radical Islamic group with links to al-Qaeda...
...arrests of 16 men in France and Belgium suspected of providing logistical support for extremist Islamic organizations. One of the suspects held in France, a Tunisian named Adel Tebourski, told investigators he recognized Dahman, a fellow Tunisian who lived in Belgium, from news coverage that included photos of Massoud's killers. "These two were close, and they go back a long way," a French justice official said. Tebourski told police both he and Dahman were members of a radical group that played a major role in sending new recruits to Afghanistan and providing false documents and other support to those...
What Tebourski claims not to know is whether Dahman went to Afghanistan to take part in the Massoud killing, or whether it was only after he arrived in Afghanistan that he was tapped for the deadly mission...