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TOPSHOT - A banner with a picture of late Afghan commander Ahmad Shah Massoud is installed next to residential buildings as burqa-clad Afghan women walk along an under-construction road in Kabul on September 8, 2021. - Twenty years on, Massoud's assassination and the September 11 attacks on the US are for many Afghans the twin cataclysms that started yet another era of uncertainty and bloodshed -- and which continue to reverberate following the Taliban's return in August 2021. - TO GO WITH 'Afghanistan-conflict-Massoud' (Photo by Aamir QURESHI / AFP) / TO GO WITH 'Afghanistan-conflict-Massoud' (Photo by AAMIR QURESHI/AFP via Getty Images)