The 1978 Revolution and the Soviet Invasion

[Hakki Alacakaptan]

William Blum says (http://members.aol.com/bblum6/afghan.htm) Taraki's
government started wide-ranging reforms and was roundly praised by Halliday.
However the US-backed Mujahedeen started acting up in July 1979
(http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/BRZ110A.html), forcing Taraki to ask
for Soviet military assistance. Amin, who was probably a CIA agent,
overthrew Taraki and immediately started brutalizing the population to
provoke anti-Soviet rage. The Soviets intervened in December as much to
prevent a CIA-backed Muj takeover as to remove Amin, whom they shot as soon
as they got to Kabul.

Hakki

 || -----Original Message-----

 || From: Michael Pugliese

 ||

 ||      From John Pike, who used to work at the Federation of American

 || Scientists.

 ||

 || http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/afghanistan/cs-invasion.htm

 ||     Anyone familiar with this book? http://www.rus.org/afgan/afglit.htm

 || * Anwar, Raja. THE TRAGEDY OF AFGHANISTAN (A First-hand Account) Verso,

 || London, 1988. 24x16cm, black cl gilt, xviii + 286pp, notes,

 || index. 1st ed. A

 || fine copy in sl stained dw. Modern historical study; 'Never

 || before has the

 || argument so clearly been put that it was the adventurism and

 || mismanagement

 || of the PDPA leaders Taraki and Amin, not some Soviet strategic

 || plan, that

 || drew the Soviet forces into Kabul..Anwar's book takes us inside the

 || leadership of the Afghan revolution in a way that no previous

 || account has

 || done. (from the Introduction by Fred Halliday of LSE)

 ||

 || Michael Pugliese

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