Taliban Forces Continue Executions After Taking Kabul, Taliban Forces Continue to Gain Ground

(30 Sep 1996) 34987 Afghanistan Taliban Forces Continue Executions After Taking Kabul APTV Kabul, Afghanistan. 27 August 1996 (variable quality) Taliban forces continued to carry out executions following their seizure of the Afghan capital, Kabul. The Islamic fundamentalists have pursued the fleeing government forces as they retreated from the devastated capital Kabul seizing and hanging two aides of the country s Sovietera leader. The executions come a day after former president Najibullah and his brother were hanged in public in the centre of Kabul. A day after their execution, the bodies of former president Najibullah and his brother Shahpur Ahmedzai are still hanging by wire nooses outside the Presidential Palace for all to see. Najibullah s body was bloodied and riddled with bullet holes. Thousands converged outside the Presidential Palace to take a look at the man accused of being a Soviet puppet during the 1980s. The Taliban waved rifles and copies of the Islamic holy book, The Koran. W