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It was an ironic and cultured man, Faheen Dashty, the spokesman for the anti-Taliban resistance, who died Saturday night in a firefight in the Panshir Valley. He had worked alongside Commander Ahmad Shah Masood for seventeen years. And he was also close to him in the last moments of his life, when, on September 9, 2001, two days before the attack on the Twin Towers, two suicide bombers disguised as journalists blew up the camera loaded with TNT with which they pretended to interview him.
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