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The plan was simple enough; Seven days in Afghanistan touring Kabul, the Khyber Pass and visiting the Red City and the famous Buddhas at Bamiyan....On April 17, 1978, a Parcham party organizer, was murdered. His funeral became an anti-American demonstration where thousands of people closed the streets of Kabul. Daoud Khan arrested and jailed leaders of the People¿s Democratic Party of Afghanistan, provoking a military coup on April 27 ¿ 28. On April 27, a tour group of weary Americans in two small busses returned to Kabul from Bamiyan to find buildings closed, streets empty and MIG fighter aircraft bombing the city center.