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Taliban Meet Fighter Who Put Up Resistance In Last Afghan Holdout

Taliban Meet Fighter Who Put Up Resistance In Last Afghan Holdout  There are reports of Ahmad Massoud organising a resistance with other expatriated Afghan leaders. ( Train) Kabul The Taliban's foreign minister said Monday he held addresses in Iran on the weekend with Ahmad Massoud, son of the late fabulous Afghan resistance leader Ahmad Shah Massoud, and guaranteed his security if he returned home.  Massoud's Panjshir Valley forces handed the last resistance in September to the Taliban's preemption of Afghanistan, weeks after government colors capitulated.   In a videotape posted Monday by state media on Twitter, Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi said he also met Ismail Khan, a Herat fiefdom warlord who surrendered to the Taliban and left the country.  The Taliban had blazoned Muttaqi's ...