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...Foreign Minister, Shah Mohammed Dost, flew in to declare that the Soviets were welcome in his land, dozens of delegates from small and fledgling countries rose to ridicule the Soviet line. Asked Papua-New Guinea's ambassador, Paulias N. Matane: "Should we accept the argument, then, that President Amin [of Afghanistan] invited the Soviet troops to overthrow his own government and eventually kill him? I find that hard to believe." Pakistan's Agha Shahi, who flew in to co-sponsor the anti-Soviet resolution, was more blunt: "A nonexistent threat of an invasion [is] obviously being advanced...
...ranks of the ruling Communist People's Democratic Party, as well as five senior military officers. Four of the officers were also named to the seven-member Praesidium, the main executive body. The government grandly announced the disbanding of the dread KAM secret police, which it said Hafizullah Amin had used for "his own criminal ends." The gesture was not likely to fool many Afghans, however, because the same announcement made it clear that the new intelligence service would be modeled on the Soviet...
...much by the invasion of Afghanistan (the National Security Council's Special Coordination Committee, chaired by Brzezinski, had all but predicted the invasion a week in advance); rather, Carter was shocked by the Soviets' duplicity and cynicism in killing their own erstwhile protégé, Hafizullah Amin, branding him a CIA agent, and then claiming that Amin's government had "invited" the invasion...
...Soviet troops turned their invasion into a full-scale occupation. Moscow's divisions spread into the hinterlands to stiffen the Afghan army's wavering resistance against the Muslim insurgency. A huge Soviet military airlift, which set the stage for the Christmas overthrow and execution of President Hafizullah Amin, showed no sign of slowing. Each day, eight to ten gigantic Antonov transport planes landed at Kabul and Bagram airports. Besides an arsenal of T-62 tanks and armored personnel carriers, the planes disgorged electric generators, bulldozers and building materials-telltale fixtures of an army that was digging...
...landed at Kabul International Airport and at Bagram airbase, 25 miles north of the capital. The planes had been mustered from bases throughout the Soviet Union; they carried an airborne division from near Moscow and support troops from Turkestan. On Dec. 27, Russian airborne troops stormed the Darulaman Palace. Amin was captured and shot, along with some of his relatives. The only other serious clash was a skirmish outside Radio Afghanistan, just across from the U.S. embassy. In both fights, Afghan troops loyal to Amin resisted as best they could and inflicted about 250 casualties, but they were no match...