The Road to Afghanistan - George Washington University

“For you and me perhaps, but not for Amin.”“So, what does it mean?”“I think that the terrorists wanted to remind Comrade Amin about something.”“Did they really think that Hafizullah Amin, the second most powerful man in thestate, would be prepared to come to Hotel Kabul to meet with them and to answer theirquestions?”“Certainly not. They hardly were thinking anything. They were merely doing whatthey were ordered to do. These people were fulfilling an order from the Americans. Theydid not think that they would be killed. Neither they nor the Americans could imagine thatComrade Amin would attempt a counter attack. The Americans forgot that Amin is aPashtun, and he would rather die than be threatened. It was Amin’s order to kill everybodyin the room. This is how he got his revenge on the Americans for their attempt to blackmailhim.”“What did the Americans want to remind Amin about?”“You certainly know that Comrade Amin, when studying in America, was the head ofan Afghan expatriate community. Do you think that anyone could become the head of aforeign community in such a highly policed country as America without approval andcollaboration of the local special services? Impossible.”“Based on that, are you trying to say that Amin has connections to the CIA or someother U.S. special services?”“There are other reasons to suspect Amin of being a traitor. Read what he wrotebefore 1965. His articles were printed in different newspapers and journals. Read themattentively and you will see clearly a very narrow-minded worldview of a petit-bourgeois331