Maggot hold your Spartans , call me cynical this looks like fake news, WaPo blowing some war support propaganda around. ( US media circuit is absolute trash, is literally interviewing every neocon warmonger they can find and the 17 intelligence agencies are barely keeping up serving up narrative control leaks to the willing media)
So far at least what can be read from non US media reports its far from some anti-Taliban coalition that would take them on ,and it also doesnt look like Ahamad did any of the commanding of the fighting so far. He is a CEO of a
non profit NGO co-founded with his uncle infamous money bag man so color me skeptical.
''in one astonishing incident in October 2009 the then vice-president, Ahmad Zia Massoud, was stopped and questioned in Dubai when he flew into the emirate with $52m in cash, according to one diplomatic report. Massoud, the younger brother of the legendary anti-Soviet resistance leader Ahmad Shah Massoud, was detained by officials from the US and the United Arab Emirates trying to stop money laundering, it says.
However, the vice-president was allowed to go on his way without explaining where the money came from.''
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/dec/02/wikileaks-elite-afghans-millions-cash
In any case this will be interesting to follow as Taliban have to stomp this out while they have the momentum and before anyone else wants to play games and preferably before the pull out is complete as that more or less prevents any US airstrikes in support of this faction.
Does this sound like some gung-ho coalition itching to kick some Taliban ass let alone retake Afghanistan?
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Ahmad Massoud, whose forces control the last major anti-Taliban holdout, said on Sunday he hoped to hold talks peacefully with the group that seized power in Kabul a week ago but that his forces were ready to fight.
“We want to make the Taliban realize that the only way forward is through negotiation,” he told Reuters news agency by telephone from his stronghold in the Panjshir Valley, where he has gathered forces made up of remnants of regular army units and special forces as well as local militia fighters.
“We do not want a war to break out.”
Massoud, son of Ahmad Shah Massoud, one of the main leaders of Afghanistan’s anti-Soviet resistance in the 1980s, said his supporters were ready to fight if Taliban forces tried to invade the valley.''
In the only confirmed fighting since the fall of Kabul on August 15, anti-Taliban forces took back three districts in the northern province of Baghlan, bordering Panjshir, last week.
However, Massoud said he had not organised the operation which he said had been carried out by local militia groups reacting to “brutality” in the area.
Massoud called for an inclusive, broad-based government in Kabul representing all of Afghanistan’s different ethnic groups and said a “totalitarian regime” should not be recognised by the international community.
