Afghans Mark The Five-Year Death Massoud

PANSHIR VALLEY, AFGHANISTAN - SEPTEMBER 10: Afghans pay their respects at the grave of Ahmad Shah Massoud, the Northern Alliance leader killed by Al-Qaeda assassins five years ago, at a hilltop mausoleum in the Panshir Valley, Afghanistan, on September 10, 2006. Many Afghans consider Massoud a hero, for fighting the Soviet occupation in the 1980s, and then creating the force that backed by American air power, overthrew the Islamist Taliban and al Qaeda forces in November 2001. (Photo by Scott Peterson / Getty Images)