Sep 2013
I was driving to work,
Listening to the morning news.
Not much happening, that Monday.
September 10th, 2001.
But then it was reported
That over in Afghanistan
A man had been assassinated.
Ahmad Shah Massoud
A resistance leader
Fighting the Taliban.
I didn't know who he was.
I didn't know why he'd been killed.
I didn't know what it meant.
But
Around the world
Some people
Important people
Were getting very worried indeed.
And then
The following day
Nineteen men
Took their seats.
Listening to the morning news.
Not much happening, that Monday.
September 10th, 2001.
But then it was reported
That over in Afghanistan
A man had been assassinated.
Ahmad Shah Massoud
A resistance leader
Fighting the Taliban.
I didn't know who he was.
I didn't know why he'd been killed.
I didn't know what it meant.
But
Around the world
Some people
Important people
Were getting very worried indeed.
And then
The following day
Nineteen men
Took their seats.
The assassination of Massoud was initially reported on the BBC as just another foreign news item.
Its true significance would not become clear until the events of the following day.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmad_Shah_Massoud
Its true significance would not become clear until the events of the following day.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmad_Shah_Massoud
