Afghanistan, Massoud: “Resistance has just begun”

“I am the son of Ahmed Shah Massoud. Surrender is not part of my vocabulary, this is the beginning, the resistance has just begun.” This is what Ahmed Massoud jr said in a telephone conversation with Bernard Henry Levy, as reported on Twitter by the same French intellectual, after al Jazeera arabic wrote about negotiations with the Taliban for the surrender of the Panshir. Meanwhile, the United States is trying to make an inventory of the weapons left in the hands of the Taliban, the result of over 20 years of aid to the Afghan military, while images of the Taliban parading with M4 carbines and American M16 rifles or edge of abandoned Humvee. To complete this assessment, in the absence of personnel in the field, it will take weeks, if not months, the sources of Cnn specify. Certainly, mine-resistant vehicles (Mrap) and most likely several Black Hawk combat helicopters and about twenty A-29 Tucano attack planes left at the Kandahar base also ended up in the hands of the Taliban, a Congressional source said. so the greatest fear in Washington is that such systems will then be sold to others who “will use them against us and our allies”.