Mark Urban: I was with Massoud when he took Kabul in 1992

[@akbarakbar6604]

As for the rest of the interview I enjoyed listening to it. Mark has been through a lot, thank you both very much!

[@akbarakbar6604]

Ghani was not enough a bastard ? With all due respect Mr Urban, you don’t know him at all!!!! I He was a micromanager par-excellence.: from appointing acting minister throughout his presidency, to making his officials sign a resignation letter prior to taking office , to appointing nearly all relevant officials himself, to replacing all anti-Taliban forces with his loyalists, he was and still is a cult fight with nearly full control of the country. That was the transition went according to plan and the West gets blamed for it .
Also the radio commentators between Massoud and Hekmatyar was about the first, pleading the latter not to enter Kabul and promising he would do the same in order to spare the city from urban warfare

[@maxheadrom3088]

Ghani was the president, correct?

[@akbarakbar6604]

@@maxheadrom3088 yes he and a couple of his close associates namely Monib and Fazli had jurisdiction (unconstitutionaly) over both military and civilian sectors!

[@deviouspirate1374]

Mark, Afghanistan is starving due to Durand Line.

[@deviouspirate1374]

Thankyou Soviets for building roads, bridges, schools and hospitals for Afghans.