There was a user here that was interested in the lost tribes subject. A based jew. As I recall, the Pashtun were not the only one, but they are the largest outside Israel (that should be called Judah if Israel were really a hebrew endeavor)

The Afghanis considered Massoud a warlord, not a hero. To the Tajiks certainly, but to other ethnicities, not at all. But the same could be said of Omar and the Pashtuns. He was no hero to the Hazara Tajiks or Uzbeks, for example. And Iran had no sense of kinship with the Talib either.

Heroic Massoud was a cabal dramatization for western audiences, and OBL played the villain. Likely both were pawns of the cabal. Omar however, was an independent Pashtun nationalist who despised communism and was pious, more so than Arab Islamists, who Talib view as corrupt disgusting and decadent.