I share General Fahims ever lasting memory with the Afghan people. Here is a photo of Ahmad Shah Massoud, Qasim Fahim and other commanders of Shura-e-Nezar with Parchami army generals Nabi Azimi, Noor-ul-Haq Ulomi, Asif Delawar and others. Why is this important? His supporters claim the they were actually fighting the Soviets. Well according to former soviet general Gramov, Massoud actually helped the Soviet killing spree in the south by allowing their supply lines to be safe. In exchange Massoud received money. At this point in history, there exists more than 25 books written by Russian, Afghan, British, Finnish, Ukrainian and American journalists and authors that attests to Massouds collaboration, treason and butchery against his own Afghan people. The Soviets also realized the strategic importance of securing their vulnerable lines of supply and communication along the precipitous Salang Highway that threaded its way through the imposing Hindu Kush massive from Hairatan to Kabul. Indeed, of such importance was this safety net for the prosecution of war, 40th Army commander General Boris Gromov noted that, Massoud could convert the area into a graveyard for the Russian troops by only throwing rocks had he chosen to do so. We simply could not survive without keeping this area open. Gromov would later write in his memoir Limited Contingent that Massoud sometimes used to stage sham skirmishes with the Russians to put off chances of suspicions about his activities among other Mujahideen groups. A fact corroborated by the head of First Department KGB, Leonid Shebarshin, in his account of the Soviet/Afghan War, The Hand of Moscow. Shebarshin characterized the fabled Panjshir offensives as fiction.
Posted on: Mon, 10 Mar 2014 17:48:28 +0000
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