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AFGHANISTAN - Sept. 7 - Karzai Visits Massoud's Tomb.(Brief Article)

From: APS Diplomat Recorder  |  Date: 9/14/2002

The government begins three days of commemoration for Ahmad Shah Massoud, who was killed in a bombing on Sept. 9, 2001, with Pres. Karzai travelling under heavy US guard to pray at Massoud's mausoleum in the Panjshir Valley in the Hindu Kush mountains, 100 km north-east of Kabul. As Karzai emerges from the green-domed mausoleum on the hilltop at Khanise, just above the village of Bazarak, where Massoud was born, Karzai says: "Terrorists ...

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