Rashid Dostum In Da Kabul House

The UK Mirror has this rather-more-lurid-than-most description of the “liberation” of Kabul.

The Taliban fighters were beaten until their heads caved in. In a traditional Afghan symbol of victory, 10,000 Afghani notes were stuffed into their mouths, noses and what remained of their skulls. Other victims had cigarette butts up their nostrils or their limbs hacked away.

And apparently, one of the Northern Alliance commanders, notorious drug-trading Abdul Rashid Dostum, is an expedient little fucker not unlike your typical Fianna Fail politician: a political chameleon, having changed from fighting alongside Soviet forces to taking up arms [against them] with the mujahedin to allying with infamous extremist, Pakistani favorite and former Prime Minister Gulbiddin Hekmatyar, to joining [the Northern Alliance]