Ahmad Shah Massoud

“Seal team 10” composed of the four-man group, the “Good” guys, take the fight to a young, but cruel leader Ahmad Sha, and his “Evil” Taliban group in a realistic, gun fight, called Operation Red Wings. Their hopes are to identify, and either capture or eliminate the target, Ahmad. In this nail bitting thriller, the four highly trained, special ops, navy seal, team find themselves facing some of the fatest, well prepared bad guys they have ever encountered as stated by Danny Dietz, “They’re fast man! Are they really that fast? Are they Faster than we…

would end soon and peace would return to Afghanistan. However, the hope for peace and stability was shuttered when various ethnically based factions of Mujahedeens entered Kabul by force and took control of certain parts of the capital in 1992. Transition of power from communist regime to an Islamic regime came through war as well. The Mujahedeens who fought against communists for Islamic ideology were now fighting for ethnic supremacy. After the collapse of communist regime, ethnic conflicts…

and you realize that it is a military attack helicopter. So the first seen in the movie, the first thing you see, is a helicopter. That is all you hear and it is the only thing moving on the screen. This sets the tone for the movie right away, the lack of sound except for the helicopter focuses all of your attention on it, and from the beginning you can tell it is a very serious movie. This is a case where the lack of sound is playing a big role in what you are experiencing (Lone…

one in my country. The dark roads, dirt on the roads, light spark far from a village and the passenger conversation are those memories which I have them from the journey from town to town back in my country. I raised up in the town called Kabul shah in the province of Kandahar in Afghanistan. The Kandahar province is one of the most famous provinces out of 36 in Afghanistan. One of the reasons for being such an important place is because most of the kings or presidents were from this region. The…

In the summer of 1973, the former Afghan prime minister, Mohammed Daoud, launched a successful coup against the late king Mohammed Zahir Shah. The former king was more of a nationalist than a socialist; his coup was reliant on pro-Soviet military and civic sectors. Ever since 1955 the Soviet Union provided Afghanistan military training and materialistic goods. By 1973, one third of active soviet soldiers were on Afghan soil. Also, Daoud Khan liked having the aid of People's Democratic Party of…

Under the guidance of the military commander Ahmad Shah Massoud, the Mujahedeen indulged in guerrilla warfare. Initiating a repeated and gruelling effort for the Soviets to drive away the fighters, and for them to boomerang right back. It seemed as it for every fighter they’d killed, his death aided in the recruitment of five more, eager to become a martyr. The Red Army’s constant successful search and destroy missions were also in vain. As no matter how many battles they won, they continued to…

Massoud was a powerful military commander and eventually became the Vice President of Afghanistan. He was involved in getting the Taliban ousted from power in the country. He was recognized as a national hero for this and has a holiday named after him. In 2001, just two days before the attack on the united states he was assassinated by suicide attackers (npr.org). The next step was directed at the United States specifically to four locations. They were targeting symbolic U.S. landmarks including…

In 1999, The United Nations ordered Afghanistan to hand over Osama bin Laden for trial, but they never did. So Osama bin Laden along with other terrorist groups continued to cause chaos in Afghanistan. On September 9th, 2001 an Afghan political and military leader Ahmad Shah Massoud, is assassinated by the Taliban. He was assassinated because he was against how the Taliban interpreted the Islamic religion. Just two days later, the U.S. is attacked by the exact same terrorist group. The U.S.…

directed towards Israel and the United States, that the CIA began to pay much more attention to him and the jihad he was creating. Soon after came the embassy bombing in Tanzania and Kenya on August 7, 1998. Soon after that came the first evidence that Bin Laden was personally involved in planning and funding the attacks. Coll goes into great detail describing the number of plans laid out by the CIA to the Clinton administration, which detail either the capture or killing of Osama Bin Laden.…

previously shown, the new Shia government aggravated the civil war between Shia and Sunni. Many questions were raised about the connection between the U.S. and Allawi regarding intelligence secrets, but nothing was proven. A new government was put in place, but the damage from the civil war had already started. Through many years of U.S. involvement and support of chaos between Shia and Sunni, the country is currently an extremely volatile place with many groups reaching for power, leaving a war…