Ex-Taliban official tells of death plot

Friday, August 16, 2002

KABUL, Afghanistan -- Osama bin Laden personally ordered the assassination of Afghan opposition leader Ahmed Shah Massood days before the Sept. 11 attacks, a senior ex-Taliban official has said, the first time a Taliban insider has discussed the terrorist mastermind's role.

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