KABUL -- Afghanistan's communist President Hafizullah Amin was lying unconscious in his bed. A KGB agent who had infiltrated Amin's staff as a cook had poisoned the president and his ministers ...

While the Kabul government was a client of the Soviet Union, the new president, Hafizullah Amin, had something else in mind. “I think he wants an improvement in U.S.-Afghan relations,” Mr ...

Their goal was to eliminate Afghan leader Hafizullah Amin, whom the KGB falsely believed to be having a dalliance with the CIA. Soviet paramilitaries did just that, gunning him down in his Kabul ...

The intervention aimed to replace Hafizullah Amin, whom the Soviets suspected of pro-U.S. leanings, with a more pliable leader. Before long, however, the Soviet army found itself fighting a ...

Afghan soldiers mutiny in Herat, massacring Soviet citizens before their rebellion is crushed. September: Hafizullah Amin emerges as DRA leader from a bout of bloodletting in the government during ...

2 January 2003, Volume 2, Number 1 SPECIAL FEATURES SOVIET INVASION OF AFGHANISTAN IN PERSPECTIVE By Amin Tarzi On the night of 27 December 1979, Soviet troops killed maverick communist Afghan ...

Valeri Vostrotin. Then-Afghan head of state Hafizullah Amin was at the Tajbeg Palace, the former home of the royal family in that country, and was the primary target for Sijantjev and his comrades.

But the Soviets did not like the Afghan president who emerged from a power struggle, Hafizullah Amin — so on December 27, 1979, they invaded and toppled Amin, replacing him with a more reliable ...

The eyewitnesses who spoke to The Anadolu Agency remember that the Communist President Hafizullah Amin had very much sensed the impending Soviet invasion, so had moved from the palace in the ...

As the leader of the Group A commando unit of the Soviet KGB, he co-ordinated the storming of the presidential palace at Kabul in 1979, which replaced President Hafizullah Amin with the pro-Soviet ...