If he's alive, Massood might be some help. He is (was?) the main opposition to the Taliban in Afghanistan. Perhaps not coincidentally, he was attacked by suicide bombers posing as journalists just before Tuesday's attacks on the US.
[link|http://abcnews.go.com/sections/world/DailyNews/afghanistan010910_massood.html|http://abcnews.go.c...massood.html]
Giovanni