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== Soviet invasion == Islamic guerrillas in the mountainous countryside harassed the Afghan army to the point where the government of President Hafizullah Amin turned to the Soviet Union for increasingly large amounts of aid. The Soviets decided to increase military aid to Afghanistan in order to maintain the Communist government, but they were dissatisfied with Amin as a leader capable of accomplishing this goal. Soviet leaders, based on information from the KGB, believed that Amin was destabilizing the situation in Afghanistan. The last arguments to overthrow Amin were obtained by the KGB from its agents in Kabul. It was reported that two of Amin's guards killed the former president Nur Muhammad Taraki and that Amin was in secret meetings with a CIA agent. There were, however, some skeptics among the Soviet advisers in Afghanistan, chiefly General Vasily Zaplatin, a political adviser at that time, who claimed that four of Taraki's young ministers were responsible for the destabilization. Amin feared the Soviet troops would be used to depose him. Fearing for his survival and uncertain of whom he could trust, he started putting his relatives into positions of power. Amin put one of his nephews in charge of the secret police, but that nephew was assassinated. Being concerned for his own safety, Amin then moved his headquarters out of Kabul . === Assassination === An attempted poisoning of Amin was undertaken on December 13, 1979. Department 8 of the [[KGB]] succeeded in infiltrating the illegal agent Mitalin Talybov (codenamed SABIR) as a chef of Amin's presidential palace. However, Amin switched his food and drink as if he expected to be poisoned, so his son-in-law became seriously ill, and ironically, was flown to a hospital in Moscow. Concerned for his safety, Amin moved the presidential offices to the Tajbeg Palace. The Soviets deployed soldiers near the palace, ostensibly to help protect it. However, their real purpose was to scout out the area and form a plan of attack. On December 27, elements of the KGB Alpha Group and Spetsnaz GRU stormed the Presidential Palace and killed Amin after another failed poisoning attempt. Amin was shot and killed by a Spetsnaz officer while hiding behind a bar. Another Spetsnaz soldier then lobbed a grenade in the vicinity of Amin, where it exploded, killing his young son. The Soviet Spetsnaz blew up Kabul's communications hub, paralyzing the Afghan military command at 19:00. By 19:15, they had seized the Ministry of Interior. The Soviet military command at Termez did not wait until Amin's capture to announce on Radio Kabul (in a broadcast prerecorded by Babrak Karmal) that Afghanistan had been liberated from Amin's rule. [[File:Dvorec 27 12 79.jpg|thumb|The palace where Amin he was a Killed]] According to the Soviet Politburo, they were only complying with the 1978 Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Good Neighborliness that former President Taraki signed. The execution of Hafizullah Amin was, according to the Soviets, the action of the Afghan Revolutionary Central Committee. That committee then elected Babrak Karmal, who was in [[exile ]]in Moscow, as head of government. === Accusations of being a CIA agent === The Soviet government and press repeatedly referred to Amin as a "CIA agent", a charge which was greeted with great skepticism in the United States. One argument against that belief, was that he always and everywhere showed official friendliness to the Soviet Union. After the assassination of Amin and two of his sons, his wife claimed that she and her remaining sons only wanted to go to the Soviet Union, because her husband was loyal to them until the end. She did eventually go to the Soviet Union to live. [[Category:Male]] [[Category:Middle Eastern Villains]] [[Category:Afghanistan]] [[Category:Communist]] [[Category:Totalitarians]] [[Category:Delusional]] [[Category:Arrogant]] [[Category:Islam]] [[Category:Failure-Intolerant]] [[Category:Execution]] [[Category:Mass Murderers]] [[Category:Pawns]] [[Category:Afghanistan]] [[Category:Cold war villains]] [[Category:Liars]] [[Category:Hypocrites]] [[Category:Tyrants]] [[Category:Deceased]] [[Category:Paranoid]] [[Category:Oppressors]] [[Category:Mongers]] [[Category:Corrupt Officials]] [[Category:Extremists]] [[Category:Lawful Evil]] [[Category:War Criminal]] [[Category:Propagandist]] [[Category:Presidents]] [[Category:Torturer]] [[Category:Anti-LGBT]] [[Category:Anti-Semetic]] [[Category:Anti-Christian]] [[Category:Anti-Catholic]] [[Category:Starvers]]
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