Are there any men in Washington or are they all cowards?

- Ahmed Shah Massoud

Just finished watching "Path To 9/11" and thought it was well done. Was this what Massoud actually said? Quite plausible.

If you remember, Massoud was executed by the taliban prior to the attack on the WTC. The cowards in D.C. let him down as they have done with so many of our allies.

Ahmed Shah Massoud (???? ??? ?????) (January 9, 1953 – September 9, 2001) (variant transliterations include Ahmad, Massood, Masoud, Masood, etc.) was a Kabul University engineering student turned Afghan military leader who played a leading role in driving the Soviet army out of Afghanistan, earning him the nickname The Lion of Panjshir. He was officially proclaimed the national hero of Afghanistan on April 25, 2002.
Massoud was an ethnic Tajik who was charismatic and respected by all factions of the Afghan population. In the early 1990s he became Defence Minister under President Burhanuddin Rabbani. Following the collapse of Rabbani's government and the rise of the Taliban regime, Massoud became the military leader of the Northern Alliance, a coalition of various armed Afghani opposition groups embroiled in a prolonged civil war. As the Taliban established control over most of Afghanistan, Massoud's forces held the mountainous areas of the north, where they controlled some 10% of Afghanistan's territory and perhaps 30% of its population until late 2001. Massoud was assassinated on September 9, 2001, two days before the al-Qaeda attack on 9/11.