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 during ...

40 years ago, the Soviet Union eliminated a communist rival from power in Afghanistan. Ever since, the country has prodded through a history of violence and political uncertainty.

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 ...