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...Many have followed generations of their family into the mines, such as 35-year-old Najibullah, who started alongside his father and grandfather as a teenager....
...At least Mohammed Najibullah, installed by Mikhail Gorbachev shortly after he took the Kremlin helm in 1985, managed to cling on to power in Kabul for three years after the Soviets withdrew....
...Ghani said he was warned he would meet the same fate as Mohammad Najibullah, a former president and communist who was murdered by the Taliban when they over-ran Kabul in 1996....
...As Ghani later explained on Facebook, he did not want Afghans to see “the president hanged once more” — a reference to Mohammad Najibullah, the communist-era leader who was strung up soon after the Taliban...
...meaning a transfer of power with certain concessions to the government, but they can’t be trusted,” says Haqqani, pointing out that they “did not keep their word” with former Afghan president Mohammad Najibullah...
...“There are no grounds for such a comparison,” Najibullah responded icily — as he enveloped the correspondent’s hand in a bone-crushing handshake. andrew.hill@ft.com...
...In “Praise” Najibullah Akrami pleads, “Feel a little pity for my situation, O God.” I don’t look for conspiracy theories because, if you do, you’ll find one....
...After the Soviet retreat, Afghanistan collapsed into a vicious civil war that ended with the Taliban capturing Kabul in 1996 and publicly hanging the Soviet-backed President Mohammad Najibullah....
...“But they can’t just drop him like Najibullah – Ukraine is not Afghanistan,” he said, referring to the former Soviet-backed Afghan leader who was murdered in public by the Taliban in 1996 a few years after...
...resurgent Taliban activity and the economy’s continued dependence on aid raise fears of a repeat of the post-Soviet implosion that led to years of brutal civil war and the public hanging of President Mohammad Najibullah...
...In the memo to Congress, intelligence officials also spelt out how both programmes were used in the case of Najibullah Zazi, who was convicted in November 2012 of conspiring to bomb the New York subway....
...Nearly 4m refugees, including Mr Khalid and Mr Najibullah, returned from Pakistan after the Taliban were ousted and a new government installed under President Hamid Karzai....
...She cited the case of Najibullah Zazi, the Afghan-American arrested in 2009 for plotting to blow up the New York subway....
...It was the implosion of the Soviet Union in 1991 that doomed the Najibullah regime by cutting off its funding....
...In 1989 it was America and Pakistan who refused to allow a political solution to end the fighting because they wanted not just the Soviets gone but also Moscow’s Afghan protégées led by Mohammad Najibullah...
...They left behind their own man, the politically astute Mohammad Najibullah, and an Afghan army capable of combating the Mujahideen. Then it all went wrong. Najibullah’s government disintegrated....
...The threat of domestic Muslim extremism has come to the fore after incidents involving US nationals or long-term residents, such as Najibullah Zazi, who has pleaded guilty to plotting attacks on the New...
...The hearings follow incidents involving US nationals or long-term residents, such as Najibullah Zazi, who has pleaded guilty to plotting attacks on the New York subway, and Faisal Shahzad, sentenced to life...
...This is exactly what the communist President Mohammed Najibullah did as Soviet troops began to leave Afghanistan in 1989....
...About 200 people gathered outside a mosque in Kabul on Sunday in support of Najibullah Mujahid, one of the losing candidates, who told the crowd the parliament was illegal....
...So did Najibullah Zazi, an Afghan-born US resident who plotted a suicide bomb attack on the New York subway....
...The charges link Najibullah Zazi, who has admitted trying to bomb the New York subway, and people arrested on terrorism charges in Manchester, England....
...The third time was President Mohammed Najibullah’s masterful restructuring after the Soviets left in 1989, when he enlisted tribal militias and warlords into the army and, as a result, hung on to power for...
...The US charges link Najibullah Zazi, the confessed attempted New York subway bomber, and people arrested on terrorism charges in Manchester, England....
...Najibullah Zazi, a 25-year-old former airport worker in Denver, Colorado, told a federal court that al-Qaeda recruited him in Pakistan to carry out a suicide attack in protest at the US military presence...
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