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EXECUTED. NAJIBULLAH, 49, former Soviet-backed President of Afghanistan who had spent more than four years in refuge at a U.N. compound; in Kabul. Najibullah, a ruthless security chief who ruled from 1986 until 1992, was found hanged after the Taliban rebels captured Kabul. Afghanistan will now be ruled by strict Islamic...
...forces that had been opposing the rebels withdrew north of the Kabul Thursday night, saying they wanted to avoid civilian casualties. Members of the Taliban, a rebel group led by ex-seminary students, stormed the city at about 1 a.m. Friday from several directions. They quickly located former President Najibullah and his brother at a U.N compound, where they had been hiding since losing power four years ago. TIME's Meenakshi Ganguly, reporting from New Delhi, says TIME stringers witnessed Najibullah's bullet-riddled body hanging from a lamppost; the public has gathered at the spectacle. The Taliban, who since...
Defying most Western predictions, Soviet-installed President Najibullah hung on for three years after Moscow's army pulled out. But as mujahedin forces led by Ahmad Shah Massoud marched on the capital of Kabul from the north, more and more of the government's army commanders went over to him, creating new coalitions in the field. Najibullah was forced to resign two weeks ago, and went into hiding...
...standoff between the government of President Najibullah and ^ Afghanistan's mujahedin, the beleaguered regime in Kabul is now clearly placing its hopes on a settlement brokered by the United Nations. Last week Najibullah tried to give that process a jog by publicly reiterating his longstanding offer to step out of the presidency and renounce any future political role as soon as a neutral interim government is formed under U.N. auspices. Said the President on national television: "I have agreed to transfer all authority to the transitional government...
...Najibullah's latest concession to the peace process came shortly after a major mujahedin faction claimed that it had captured the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif, site of a government air base; Kabul denied the claim. Hard- line mujahedin, ignoring the President's offer, vowed to fight...