In the months before the brutal assassination of Ahmad Shah Massoud, the commander of the India-backed Northern Alliance in Afghanistan, two days before the Al Qaida’s attacks on New York’s Twin Towers in September 2001, the Afghan resistance leader had an unusual visitor: A CIA operative based in Pakistan had finally been granted a face-to-face meeting.
A year after Taliban forces swept into Kabul at the express invitation of former Afghan President Hamid Karzai the Kalashnikov-toting militia marked the anniversary of their lightning power grab with a show of force against a handful of Afghan women who were out on the streets of Kabul in open defiance of the Taliban’s diktat on face masks and restrictions on education
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Without proper training, the Afghan air force was unable to get the needed qualified personnel, and without contractors, they were unable to maintain aircrafts.