9 September 2001
Al-Qaeda Attack
The assassination removes the leading military commander of the anti-Taliban Islamic State.
Historical place archive
Browse historical events and people recorded at Khwaja Bahauddin in Afghanistan. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.
The assassination removes the leading military commander of the anti-Taliban Islamic State.
Al-Qaeda suicide attackers posing as journalists assassinate Ahmad Shah Massoud.
Massoud dies from injuries caused by a bomb hidden in a television camera.
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