| Ahmed Shah Massood died Saturday of injuries suffered in a suicide bombing last weekend, his spokesman said - a major blow to the fractious forces battling the country's Taliban rulers. Massood, 48, died at 10 a.m. in Khodja Bahauddin in the northern Takhar province, the spokesman, Abdullah, who like many Afghans uses only one name, said in a telephone interview. He was the first person close to Massood in Afghanistan to confirm his death. (By Amir Shah Associated Press) |