Ahmad Shah Massoud ya kasance shugaban siyasa da soja na kasar Afganistan wanda ya taka muhimmiyar rawa wajen tinkarar mamayar da sojojin Soviet suka yi a Afghanistan, daga baya kuma ga gwamnatin Taliban. An haife shi a ranar 2 ga Satumba, 1953, a kwarin Panjshir a Afghanistan kuma an kashe shi a ranar 9 ga Satumba, 2001, kwanaki biyu kacal kafin harin 11 ga Satumba a Amurka. - Sojojin Soviet a cikin 1980s, Massoud ya sami suna saboda fasaha na dabara, kuma an san shi da "Lion of Panjshir." Ya kuma shiga cikin tattaunawar da ta kai ga kafa gwamnatin bayan Tarayyar Soviet a Afganistan. Bayan da Taliban ta karbe iko da birnin Kabul a shekara ta 1996, Massoud ya zama daya daga cikin jagororin kungiyar 'yan tawayen Arewa masu adawa da gwamnatin Taliban. ‘Yan kungiyar Al Qaeda ne suka kai harin, kuma ana ganin hakan a matsayin wani gagarumin share fage ga harin na ranar 11 ga watan Satumba. Gadonsa a matsayin jarumin kishin kasa kuma alamar tsayin daka kan mamayar kasashen waje a Afghanistan.