A New ‘Lion of Panjshir’ Emerges as the Last Man Standing in America’s Abandoned War on Terror

He dreamed of being an astronomer but destiny called.

Via National Resistance Front of Afghanistan
Ahmad Massoud, son of the late Ahmad Shah Massoud, the 'Lion of Panjshir.' Via National Resistance Front of Afghanistan

“I love three things in this world,” Ahmad Massoud once told French philosopher Bernard-Henri Levy, “books, gardens and astronomy.” Now, the young Afghan finds himself leading a rag-tag band of rebels nestled in the mountains of the Hindu Kush. They are the last remnants of the Global War on Terror launched by America and her allies in the wake of the 9/11 terror attacks. 

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