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re: TALIBAN: Kabul Airport Closed-Warlords' Son WARNS=TORTURE & Massacres Continue
Fabled Warlords' Son Warns Taliban - Son of Warlord Vows to Resist Taliban
...And perhaps live up to his warrior father, the Lion of Panjshir.
The Telegraph UK, 20 AUG 2021.
He is the son of a legendary Afghan warlord who dreams of peace and of one day becoming a physics teacher.
For now Ahmad Massoud is holed up in a remote Afghan valley, with four helicopters, a few hundred soldiers and a handful of figures from an exiled government on a mission to resist the Taliban – and perhaps live up to his warrior father, the Lion of Panjshir.
The UK-educated 32-year-old has given his first interview since the Taliban overran Afghanistan, speaking to the Telegraph and another journalist on a patchy WhatsApp call from the Panjshir Valley – a narrow corridor of land 100 miles north of Kabul leading into the Hindu Kush mountain range.
He has warned the Taliban of his plan to resist an unjust rule. It comes as the so-called Islamic State group lashed out at the Taliban, its regional foe, in a bitter editorial which baselessly claims the takeover of Afghanistan is a US-backed conspiracy.
Meanwhile, a former Royal Marine turned charity chief in Afghanistan has warned people will be "left behind" as he posted an image of his wife's near-empty evacuation flight out of Kabul.
Paul Farthing, known as "Pen", called the image "scandalous" having battled to get all 25 staff from his animal welfare charity Nowzad and their families out of the country.
A German has revealed how he fooled the Taliban into letting him and his fiancée out of the country by pretending his German political party membership card was a diplomatic passport.
Back home, a minister and former British Army officer who served in Afghanistan has said the Taliban's control makes him "sick", but that the group's involvement in the peace process was always set to be a reality.
Read How Warlords' Son Warns Taliban... warned the Taliban of his plan to resist an unjust rule.
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