Page 4 - Inside Kabul News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Golf estates, and arabs were extremely ruthless, brutal fighters and gave them a whole new dimension, new tax mix a new, you know kind of weaponry and retrained them. by the time they reached kabul, the leadership of the taliban is saying we will seized power, we will rule this country. the first act — will rule this country. the first act as _ will rule this country. the first act as victors - will rule this country. the first act as victors was - will rule this country. the | first act as victors was the torture and execution of former communist leader najibullah and his brother, who is wh...

Resistance. they were really seen as, you know, angels, these young angels who had arrived to save the country. but angels who had arrived to save the country-— the country. but any thoughts that the taliban _ the country. but any thoughts that the taliban were - the country. but any thoughts that the taliban were angelicl that the taliban were angelic young idealists, soon faded. two more years of vicious fighting followed, including a 10—month bombardment of kabul before the taliban finally took the capitol on 27 september, 1996. :, ::, �* the capitol on 27 september, 1996. :, �* , 1...

Music and arts were bands thieves had their hands and feet amputated. adulterers were stoned to death. anyone drinking liquor based the lash. 20 years after the communist had taken power in kabul after an armed coup, afghanistan was being run by a group of extreme islamist. —— communist. just as the soviets had wanted to make afghanistan a bastion of world communism, now the taliban's most extreme arab supporters, al-qaeda, wanted to use the country as a base to launch the internationaljihad.

The streets of kabul. the men were forced out of the city and took up positions in the hills and started shelling the capital. behind it in ramadi was the leader in waiting of the new afghanistan government.

0n on december 20 seven, 1979, soviet special forces stormed the presidential palace in kabul. the president, hafamin was killed. this was the start of the soviet invasion of afghanistan. the soviets had invaded to shore up the communist government. afg hanistan�*s communist government. afghanistan's communist had taken power in a coup in 1978, but opposition to the radical modernisation programme, together with internal