Both men were sentenced to life imprisonment for other crimes after military rule collapsed.
Mr. Fahim, an ethnic Tajik, fought Mr. Hekmatyar, an ethnic Pashtun, in the period after Soviet rule collapsed.
Their rule collapsed about 1855, when the Tumbuka area was subjugated by a group of Ngoni, a highly militarized refugee people from South Africa.
Many in Khomeini's inner circle opposed making peace, arguing that the "sacred defence" had to continue until Saddam's rule collapsed.
Zormat residents said the men from Kabul were joined, in early December, by other Taliban and Qaeda men fleeing Kandahar, where Taliban rule collapsed on Dec. 7.
By 1994, white majority rule collapsed, and Nelson Mandela later acknowledged that the divestment campaign played a key role in bringing South Africa's apartheid leaders to the negotiating table.
More than a decade after Communist rule collapsed in the Balkans, most Romanians still drive copies of the boxy Renault 12, made by the local car company, Dacia.
Ultimately, Saddam's rule collapsed in part because he couldn't read Iraq and made decisions based on hubris and bad information.
In the years just before minority rule collapsed, in spite of generous government subsidies, 30% of white farmers were insolvent and another 30% only broke even.
Then, as Communist rule collapsed, he became a prosperous businessman and part of the crony capitalist web surrounding Vladimir V. Putin, by his own account working with some success to rebuild Russia's primitive health care system.
