Talk:Hafizullah Amin

message: 1. Amin died reportedly at the hands of a rival faction after being captured by Russians special forces.
2. Suspicions of a CIA connection was based on recent discussions with USA Government staff 
According to "The World Was Going Our Way: The KGB and the Battle for The Third World by Christopher Andrew and Vasili Mitrokhin"
1. Amin moved his palace from Kabul on the advice of KGB security experts, who actually wanted Amin out of Kabul because it would be easier to capture him there
2. Karmal was waiting in a soviet base outside Kabul during the storm of the palace
3. The attack on the palace led to hour killed out of  24 members of the Alpha team, claiming their commander. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Cdamama (talk • contribs) 05:32, 11 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Factual cleanup 

message: I removed text from the article because it seems to be copied from http://www.gl.iit.edu/govdocs/afghanistan/ARevolutionBackfires.html. Insertion of this text on en.wiki has taken place on Nov 3, 2005. That text has been added previously on that external site, according to web.archive.org. --Gia.cossa 20:02, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Copyright infringement? 

message: Having read Tajbeg Palace and looked at the pictures there, this is a European-style stately home or mansion, with fairly thin walls and lots of windows, not an Indian-style fortress palace with earth and rock walls twenty feet thick or whatever. Are we pushing things a bit to claim it was capable of withstanding artillery fire - from common late 1970s artillery like this - even if the source says so? --Demiurge1000 (talk) 00:46, 18 March 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: The source says so; I can check if other sources say the same thing, but If they do, it has to change - verifiability is policy. --TIAYN (talk) 14:45, 27 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tajbeg Palace able to withstand artillery fire? 

message: While copy-editing this article it seemed to be mainly in British English, so I removed a couple of instances of American English. I'm open to suggestions as to what version of English would be best, though. --Demiurge1000 (talk) 21:14, 20 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Variant of English 

message: It would be nice to include more pictures. Neither of the pictures of the Tajberg Palace represent well how it would've looked at the time (although one of them could perhaps be cropped), but maybe one could be used. We could also consider using small images of some of the contemporaries and opponents involved in Amin's life. What else is there from this era - maybe other locations, or pictures of meetings between different politicians? --Demiurge1000 (talk) 21:30, 20 March 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: I really can't do much with the lack of pictures, there are simply no free pictures at the moment (as I know of...) --TIAYN (talk) 14:45, 27 March 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: When I have a bit of spare time, I will experiment with including some pics of related places and people mentioned in the text, and we can see if they improve things or if they distract from the content of the article. --Demiurge1000 (talk) 19:38, 27 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pictures 

message: While discussing Amin's disassociation with Nur Taraki, the 44th citation states that, "In April 1984 Amin began to disassociate himself from Taraki".  This makes no sense, as Hafizullah Amin was  assassinated in 1979 during operation Storm-333.  (23.24.213.205 (talk) 16:24, 26 April 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Fixed --TIAYN (talk) 16:43, 26 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Amin's disassociation with Nur Taraki 

message: Copied from User talk:Paulmaximus
You made some edits to the article on Hafizullah Amin‎, which did not have citations in the standard format.  Your edits do refer to "The New York Times on 27 December in an item by Bernard Gwertznan".  Does this mean 27 December 2014 or 27 December 1979?  Do you have a copy of the article?  What was the article's title?  Which of the statements are being sourced from that article?
Given that Russian histories of the operation are available now (in Russian), that were not available to Western journalists in December 1979, do you think that they should be given precedence?-- Toddy1 (talk) 08:34, 10 February 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: I assume that 1969 is a typographical error for 1979.  I have copied this discussion to Talk:Hafizullah Amin#Death.-- Toddy1 (talk) 08:25, 11 February 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Death

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