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The whereabouts of Baharunuddin Rabbani, the current...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eEnglish/Nat\u003cbr/\u003eRebel Taliban Islamic rebels overran the defences of  Kabul on Friday, seizing control of  the Afghan capital and hanging the former president Najibullah from a lamp post. \u003cbr/\u003eThe whereabouts of Baharunuddin Rabbani, the current president and that of his top  commander, Ahmed Shah Masood, were not immediately known.  \u003cbr/\u003eThe Afghan government said they retreated to avoid a human catastrophe.\u003cbr/\u003eTaliban rebels said the government was no longer in power.\u003cbr/\u003eAn ocean and two continents away from Afghanistan, the old flag is still flying outside  United Nations Headquarters.\u003cbr/\u003eBut some Afghan exiles hope events overnight will herald a new era in their homeland.\u003cbr/\u003eSOUNDBITE: (English)\u003cbr/\u003eBy the fall of Kabul government and victory of Taliban, this illegal flag is coming down  and a new national flag will be going up. \u003cbr/\u003eSUPER CAPTION: Mohammed Rahani/Cultural Attache Afghanistan Community in  America\u003cbr/\u003eAfter entering the capital with little resistance from government troops, the Taliban took  over Kabul Radio and announced that Rabbani's coalition government, comprised of five  rebel factions, was over.\u003cbr/\u003eThe rebels have vowed to bring peace along with strict Islamic rule to all of Afghanistan.  If they can, they will be among the few to succeed in that country's violent history.\u003cbr/\u003eWith the ousting of President Burhanuddin Rabbani, the Taliban leadership is just the  latest group to hold power in Kabul.\u003cbr/\u003eWithin hours the rebels seized former president Najibullah from a United Nations  compound Friday. His bloated and beaten body was found hanging from a lamppost  outside the presidential palace in Kabul (KA'-bool).\u003cbr/\u003eNajibullah, who led a Russian-backed Communist regime until he was ousted by  Muslim rebels in April 1992, had been in the UN sanctuary\u003cbr/\u003esince his overthrow. His brother and former security chief, Shahpur, was executed with  him.\u003cbr/\u003eAP's reporter filed this dramatic eyewitness report of the current situation in Afghanistan  by phone. \u003cbr/\u003eSOUNDBITE: (English)\u003cbr/\u003e\"They hauled him out of the U-N compound and took him to the Presidential Palace  which had been abandoned by the government and he was beaten and there were  several bullet wounds to his lower body.  I saw the corpse hanging this morning outside  the presidential palace from a twenty foot cement post.  Najibullah's bloodied and  bloated corpse was hanging there.  There are people everywhere.  There were at least a  thousand people in front of the presidential palace shouting \"God is great\" and hurling  abuses at Najibullah's corpse.  \u003cbr/\u003eSUPERCAPTION: Kathy Gannon, A-P Correspondent\u003cbr/\u003eAfghanistan's Deputy Foreign Minister says his government retreated from Kabul to  avoid \"a human catastrophe\".  \u003cbr/\u003eSpeaking at the U-N headquarters in New York, Abdul Rahim Ghafoorzai, said  government troops had made a strategic withdrawal from the Afghan capital  to prevent  a \"bloodbath\".\u003cbr/\u003eSOUNDBITE: (English)\u003cbr/\u003eThe amount of heavy weaponries that they have at their disposal created a great  amount of concern to the government that once they entered into the city the city would  turn into a bloodbath, so just to avoid the human catastrophe, the government very  wisely decided not to allow that situation to happen, they decided to retreat, it's a  strategic retreat, they took their forces about seven kilometres to the north.\u003cbr/\u003eSUPER CAPTION: Abdul Rahim Ghafoorzai - Afghan Deputy Foreign Minister\u003cbr/\u003eBut Ghafoorzai hinted that his government was not prepared to surrender without a fight.\u003cbr/\u003eHe called for unity among his fellow countrymen to oust the Taliban from Kabul.\u003cbr/\u003eThe Afghan ambassador in India says leaders of Afghanistan's government have fled to  hills north of Kabul.\u003cbr/\u003eMasood Khalili says they are  now planning a counter offensive to wrest control of the  capital from Islamic rebels.\u003cbr/\u003eKhalili says he's in touch with Rabbani's government-- but he did not say how.\u003cbr/\u003eAs he addressed a news conference, an aide brought in a transcript of what he said  was the latest communique from his government.\u003cbr/\u003eSOUNDBITE: (English)\u003cbr/\u003e\"Since we did not want at all to see tanks and artillery being used on the civilian  population, those who have suffered for 18 years, suffer more, we retreated.  Retreated  is not defeat.\"     \u003cbr/\u003eSUPER CAPTION: Masood Khalili, Afghanistan Ambassador to India\u003cbr/\u003eIn Washington the State Department described the death of Najibullah as regrettable.   There was also a call to respect the rights of people in Afghanistan.   \u003cbr/\u003eSOUNDBITE: (English)\u003cbr/\u003eWe hope very much and expect that the Taliban will respect the rights of all Afghans  and that the new authorities will move quickly to restore order and security and to form  a representative interim government on the way to some natural reconciliation.\u003cbr/\u003eSUPER CAPTION: Glyn Davies/US State Department Spokesperson\u003cbr/\u003eKabul residents are reported to have cheered at the sight of the dead former president.\u003cbr/\u003eThey were apparently hopeful the Taliban victory would end four years of factional wars  and rocketing of the Afghan capital that has killed as many as 30-thousand residents  and levelled huge swathes of the city.\u003cbr/\u003eNew York, New Delhi 27 Sept and Kabul File\u003cbr/\u003e United Nations, New York 27 September 1996\u003cbr/\u003e1. Flags in front of UN building\u003cbr/\u003e2. TS of Afghan flag\u003cbr/\u003e3. SOUNDBITE: (English) Mohammed Rahani \u003cbr/\u003e4. Taliban rebels advancing towards Kabul (22-23 Sept 1995) \u003cbr/\u003e5. File still of Najibullah 1987\u003cbr/\u003e   Kabul 27 September 1996\u003cbr/\u003e6. VOICE OVER: (English) over still of Najibullah with voice track of AP correspondent  \u003cbr/\u003e7. GV's Kabul (Feb 1996) \u003cbr/\u003e8. Street Scenes Kabul (May 1995)\u003cbr/\u003e   New York  27 September 1996\u003cbr/\u003e9. Set up Shot of  Abdul  Ghafoorzai  \u003cbr/\u003e10. SOUNDBITE:  (English) Ghafoorzai \u003cbr/\u003e11. Ghafoorzi at his desk\u003cbr/\u003e  New Delhi, 27 September 1996\u003cbr/\u003e12. Gv Embassy of Afghanistan\u003cbr/\u003e13. SOUNDBITE: (English) Khalili\u003cbr/\u003e Washington, DC 27 September 1996\u003cbr/\u003e14.  Set up State Department news conference\u003cbr/\u003e15.  SOUNDBITE: (English) Glen Davies\u003cbr/\u003e16. 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