The Man al Qaeda Removed Before September 11

[00:00:00]Ahmad Shah Massoud, commanded the only force still [music] holding ground against the Taliban. On September 9th, 2001, he was gone. Two days later, the world changed and his country with it.

[00:00:12]Massoud had [music] warned Europe weeks earlier, a major attack on Western soil was coming. He had names, he had [music] intelligence. He was the one man the Taliban and Al-Qaeda both needed removed before their plan could proceed. [music] Declassified CIA records confirm the Bush cabinet had already authorized NSP D9, a [music] covert Northern Alliance program, on September 4, 2001, before the attacks. CIA team Jawbreaker landed in Massoud's own Panjshir Valley on September 22nd [music] carrying $3 million in cash. Rumsfeld's declassified October 30 memo, bearing his handwritten edits, explicitly stated the US would not rebuild [music] what the war destroyed. The National Security Archive confirmed this in 2021.

[00:01:00]46,319 civilians were confirmed [music] killed, 241,000 in total. The families of Massoud's fighters, the villages, the children, absorbed inside a number. In 2021, the Taliban returned. The record of what was sacrificed remains officially unacknowledged. Massoud's final intelligence [music] warning was never fully declassified. What did he know and who needed him silenced before he could say it?